• What was the most painful thing a leader or member ever said or did to you?

The following quote inside an official church publication still passively offends me,even if it was written 4 years before I was born....like how you may ask?
It comes out here in the
Sunday School Manual,1945 which states ," that when the Prophet speaks,the thinking has been done".But one may protest,we still have our free agency.
Really,in sustaining authorities in general conference,do you have significant opportunity to stand to your feet there, and offer reasons for NOT SUSTAINING HIM?
As for example,could you argue freely as one wasmormon ward authority on this site ,who was so thoroughly upset as with his own daughters being asked humiliating questions in their young teen years for their temple worthiness applications, that he finally after numerous failed attempts ,using all of his free agency, found himself finally outside the fold.
I applaude him greatly for such a persistent stand.
This covers a massive wide area of polity and practice,that free agency ought to be accepted as standard policy, should it not?
How can any member make THEIR CASE for a troubling or difficult matter,or question of theirs,as for example,about a longstanding mysterious or cloudy area in church history to a bishop?
CAN women in many combined ward chapels object to their future lifestyles upcoming,in what D&C.132 still defines and implies for them in their eternal future happiness?Could they lobby for a revision of that July12,1843 revelation?What are the odds for a future change to a sensible monogamy of today?
I'm sure members can detail far more along these lines than I.
One final example,I live in a terribly poor third world country,with over 25%unemployment,and wonder if such very poor disabled as I see and treat in my clinic,should still be forced to comply with a mandatory 10%tithe,and at least not see some of that not used to help buy them beans,and tortillas down here,for some that often have but one meal a day?

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That I was too stupid to find a job.