Stories of mormon faith transitions. Share your truth – own your story!
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My spouse left the church. I went to the temple to pray about it, and I received a beautiful, loving response from God, assurance that my spouse was on his own path and that was ok, and that our family was loved and safe.
I kept researching this question, trying to make it fit together, because I knew God was not a God of confusion, but I only found more and more disturbing facts in church history. And then I realized suddenly: **They are never speaking for God, they are always speaking as men.** And it suddenly ALL made sense. All at once, my entire testimony/worldview/identity crumbled. Thirty-seven years of faithful, believing membership, gone.
"Once I realized that they were absolutely wrong about that, I started asking myself what else they were wrong about..." https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
"I'm here. I'm queer. I love the ocean, coffee, wine, and therapy . I was a mormon." https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
"Born and raised Mormon. Life long internalized homophobia. Checked off all the boxes. 50 years, a husband of 30 years, and 4 kids later I woke up and realized that I was in cult" https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
"It led me to realize that the church leaders DO NOT speak for the god that I believed in at the time. I could see that god would never treat the lgbtq community the way the mormon leaders do and would never make me choose between church and my child." https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
Read Laycie’s profile at https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
"My queer daughter told me I was toxic to her and didn't love her for who she was. She wanted to end contact with me and it broke me. I couldn't lose my child and I decided to get over my homophobia." https://wasmormon.org/profile/queerexmo30/
