Huh. How’s your Latin?
Why thank you, good sir! I am the elusive “wife” referred to by Rhodes, and this is my debut post on SDMB. The last year has been quite a journey for our little family. It has not been easy. Many of our family and friends have, and continue to, struggle a great deal with our decision to leave the church. It is so nice to have a community that is supportive and understanding of our apostasy.
Welcome to the Dope, rockn! Now you know where I’ve learned all my useless trivia.
There is an online support community for exmormons and those who are thinking of leaving the church. You are both cordially invited.
Welcome to Outer Darkness! 
Welcome to the Dope.
Um, did Rhodes happen to mention that little thing about new members and the squid?
And you thought the temple interview was tough. . .
Seriously, I’m really glad that you two are on the same page.
Just popping back in to ask if you two have left the church what will you do for guidance in your lives now?
Back as Mormons, then you could have the great wisdom of the General Authorities (the top leadership). Men like Paul Dunn and Gene R. Cook, the man who put Mick Jagger in his place.
If you want a laugh, read the article in the link. Remember, this was one of the men personally called by the prophet of the Lord to guide us in righteousness, and he’s going to do it by making up stories of meeting rock stars on planes.
Welcome to the Dope! It’s good to have you. Watch out for that corner over there. It’s dangerous.
If you do visit that website, this is a beautiful article.
I first heard that story in sunday school 19 years ago when I was young and gullible, but I thought the protagonist was an apostle. Even then, I figured Mick was being sarcastic. Everyone knows that the Stones’ music is calculated to make people buy Rolling Stones albums.
I introduced my inactive kid brother to Cook. Cook wanted to meet with the inactives in my singles’ ward, and I was on the list because I’d been dozing off in Sunday school. He made a huge impression on my brother. My bro is now in a bishopric, and is the nut who flew to TX to try to save my soul.
I like that. Thanks!
Hey, we’ve at least got no problem with people drinking coffee. 
Heh. I haven’t set foot in a Catholic church since 2002 or so, and I’m still getting NC Catholic. I can’t figure out who’s covering the subscription.
And a glossy brochure:
Not quite the final letter I had hoped for. This is what is supposed to happen when you send your resignation directly to HQ, which is why I sent my initial letter to the Bishop’s home address. And I did cc HQ in my email follow-up.
(Note: I assume that it is kosher to directly quote something that was mailed to me from the copyright holder. Mods, if that wasn’t legal then please remove the quoted brochure from this post)
Sounds like they want to run you around for a bit, to be honest.
Join us, Homer. It’s bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Well good on ya both. Sorry you are getting the run around. But the church isn’t quite as bad as AOL, you’ll eventually be allowed to resign. 
I have to admit I have been far lazier and just kinda disappeared instead of resigning when I left. Fortunately for me my mom noticed my records hadn’t been updated, and made sure my membership was moved to my current ward. Thanks mom. :rolleyes: And thanks to whomever showed her my supposedly private membership records. And another big thanks to my brother the bishop who called the local bishop to give him pointers on how to re-activate me.
Fortunately I didn’t have any history with the local ward, so when members came by I was able to convince them to leave me alone pretty easily.
I still haven’t officially come out to my family, so I just get the guilt trip for being a bad Mormon. I can’t imagine what it would be like to actually quit the church.
I would include you in my prayers if I still said them, or believed there was anyone answering. So you’ll have to make do with my good wishes.
Remind your bishop that there is no need for waiting.
Also, ask to be called “Mr. and Mrs.” not “Brother and Sister.” You have officially already left the church the moment you resigned. Remember this exercise is simply to have them follow your constitutional rights.
Assholes. Thank god (not literally) that there is a civil government to provide a check to religion. If it weren’t for lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits, they would never have acknowledged people’s right to resign.
If they give you more of a run around, ask them if it would be quicker if you have legal counsel pursue this. I wonder if the ACLU would be interested in helping develop a precedence for expediency in the process.
I’d love to see the Mormons defend this shit. Your bishop should be thanking his god that it’s you and not me he’s dealing with. You sound like a much nicer guy.
Well, he [del]is[/del] was a Mormon.
“Decent” people do not donate 10% of their income to a church fund that is used to wage war on sexual minorities, champ. Your friends are garbage no matter how many cookies they bake for you.
Don’t be upset, Rhodes. They send that letter to everyone. it means you’re almost out!
Uh, garbage? So every Catholic and every Muslim in the world is also garbage because their religions support morally egregious positions? By your standards there are about 150,000 non-garbage people in the world. And some of those are robots.