kllindley

This is also my experience!

Well put! That pretty perfectly describes my own conclusions after attempting for years to share my own experiences on this board. The tolerance and love wins crowd apparently only believe in those values for people they agree with.

You expressed yourself very well! I've largely given up sharing my experience. People like @kimpearson, @Meadowchik, and others are really good at dismissing our experiences as anomalies. The grilling you got was interesting to me. If someone were to ask similar questions of an LGBT former/dissatisfied member, those questions would be attacked as unacceptable. I respect you for trying to share your experience. You are a great example!

Genesis 11:1-9 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/11?lang=eng And the whole earth was of one alanguage, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of aShinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and aslime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a aname, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their alanguage, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the acity. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there aconfound the blanguage of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord cscatter them dabroad upon the face of all the earth.

Very well written! I may not completely agree with everything you've written, but overall super insightful.