Giving Keri the benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming she has only experienced in her limited circle of LDS acquaintances (be it an LDS ward(s), stake(s), LDS family, LDS friends) those who don't "lovingly embrace" divorced people. Very sad. I must say that I don't categorically fall into her personal experience. I am one of over 16 million LDS people from around the entire world and to be told by a total stranger that I "judge and marginalize" any group of people is simply not "truthfully" true. Who is "truthfully" judging and marginalizing here? Not me.
A. B.October 23, 2019
The family is a species in extinction for sure. I thought of that 20 years ago after vising the local zoo. My own father had recently left the house. I was shaken and thought to myself, "Why in the world did I get married? Will this also end in abandonment?" Fortunately for us, the Lord worked in mysterious ways and my father came back. My parents forgave each other and they are still together.
I cry with each episode of Relative Race on BYUTV, because these adults have always had this question in their minds all their lives, "Who is my father/mother, and why was I given up? Wasn't I enough?" I tell our kids they are fortunate to know their father and their mother and know that even though we are not perfect, we love them and are trying hard to raise them to be their best selves.
KeriOctober 23, 2019
Truthfully, LDS Church members do not lovingly embrace the divorced. They judge them, marginalize them and teach their children not to marry theirs Nice try, but no cigar.,
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pattyOctober 23, 2019
Giving Keri the benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming she has only experienced in her limited circle of LDS acquaintances (be it an LDS ward(s), stake(s), LDS family, LDS friends) those who don't "lovingly embrace" divorced people. Very sad. I must say that I don't categorically fall into her personal experience. I am one of over 16 million LDS people from around the entire world and to be told by a total stranger that I "judge and marginalize" any group of people is simply not "truthfully" true. Who is "truthfully" judging and marginalizing here? Not me.
A. B.October 23, 2019
The family is a species in extinction for sure. I thought of that 20 years ago after vising the local zoo. My own father had recently left the house. I was shaken and thought to myself, "Why in the world did I get married? Will this also end in abandonment?" Fortunately for us, the Lord worked in mysterious ways and my father came back. My parents forgave each other and they are still together. I cry with each episode of Relative Race on BYUTV, because these adults have always had this question in their minds all their lives, "Who is my father/mother, and why was I given up? Wasn't I enough?" I tell our kids they are fortunate to know their father and their mother and know that even though we are not perfect, we love them and are trying hard to raise them to be their best selves.
KeriOctober 23, 2019
Truthfully, LDS Church members do not lovingly embrace the divorced. They judge them, marginalize them and teach their children not to marry theirs Nice try, but no cigar.,
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