The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.

The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members.

The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with children, becoming priests and serving as teachers. The church also expanded on an existing rule that barred trans people from being baptized.

Trans members will also face possible annotation on their membership records, grouping them with churchgoers who have committed incest, sexual predatory behavior, sexual violence against children and embezzlement of church funds.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    111·
    4 months ago

    They don’t only do posthumous baptism, they do posthumous baptism of non-Mormons to make them into Mormons.

    They did a posthumous baptism for Anne Frank. Assholes. I realize that doesn’t change anything about anything, but they’re still assholes for doing it.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      41·
      4 months ago

      Anyone can submit names and people often submit names to embarrass the church because they know it will cause problems. Secondly the ‘anne frank’ that had work done was not the historically famous figure but a different person entirely,

      Temple work is ancestor focused worship, it’s not about changing anyone’s historical factual life, that’s not at all a belief in the church, no one thinks that temple work changes ANYTHING about history, that’s INSANE and no one thinks that’s what’s happening with the names you work.

      All the names you so work for are supposed to be YOUR ancestors, people do go through and offer to do names people have left available for anyone, but those names are still supposed to be that other persons ancestors, not unrelated people, no one is supposed to be submitting names of any historical figure they arend provably a decendent of, and even then, they should only do so if they have a right to do that work.

      A lot of people hate Mormons and like to make up the worst things they can think of to insult or vilify them. I was Mormon for a long time, I left the church because of ACTUAL THINGS the church does that are wrong and bad and against the churches own doctorine, the choices they make about training and policy, the severe anti lgbtq hatetred they support and spread. NOT because of made up bullshit no one in the church has ever done or believed.

      There’s more than enough factual information to criticize, making up bullshit isn’t necessary and it’s dishonest and stupid.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        BftD is a very weird doctrine that is childishly literal on the one hand, but inefficient to the point of cruelty on the other. There is no real point to it except busy work for grandmas and finding something to use for indoctrinating teens at the temples, and maybe it was an effective lever of control over superstitious members when it was first rolled out. I can guarantee you that any well known person was submitted at least once by “well meaning” members, regardless of the rules when they were doing so.

        It’s so facially… stupid… that it’s extremely disrespectful to cling to it and claim it’s any kind of benefit. When I was a kid, they would say that if you died unbaptized you were in some sort of spirit prison, and it was only after some dumb kid who lied about cranking it to the Sears catalog got dunked in an overgrown bathtub that you’d get your hall pass to let you “decide” whether to accept the gospel (which is another bone to pick… what kind of choice is that after you’re dead and it turns out the Mormons were right?!).

        It’s horrendous on its face, but it only gets every so slightly better upon deeper investigation. It’s still an arrogant and incoherent but of theology, and the sooner they have a “revelation” that it’s unnecessary, the better.

      • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        I read a few years back that the temple was giving out names for people to baptize and if a family ever came back to baptize them they would just redo it. When I found that out it felt wrong for some reason.

        Knowing all the work I had done to find the names just to find out they had the name the whole time and they potentially gave it to someone else really rubbed me the wrong way.