Resigning from the LDS

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debbie_h said:
I have completed my RCIA program & I will be baptised into the Catholic Church very soon. I have been thinking about whether I should officially resign from the LDS church. I haven’t been able to find any Australian based information on the subject. I do not wish to have any contact with any LDS leaders & I do not want my (devout) LDS parents to be involved. Any advice?:confused:
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Debbie,

Congratulation, Welcome HOME!!!

Ufam Tobie
 
debbie_h said:
Why would that be? Did no one ever resign before that?
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I think there was no mechanism in the church for resignation, the only way for your name to be removed was excommunication. That’s why all the children from the “baseball baptisms” had to be excommunicated.
 
zaffiroborant said:
I think there was no mechanism in the church for resignation, the only way for your name to be removed was excommunication. That’s why all the children from the “baseball baptisms” had to be excommunicated.
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I’ve never heard of ‘baseball baptisms’ before, but doing a quick google search, I’m confused to what this actually is as I remember the missionaries still talk of the baptism challenge & the real push to convert…
 
As a side story that you may find humorous, I was once the target of a "drive-by proselytization by Mormon missionaries. One got out of the car behind me and the other in front carrying their blue books. As they started into their spiel I enthusiastically asked them to volunteer where I work. I continued listing the application process, list of possible jobs, contacts etc. as their eyes glazed and they with no uncertain body language disengaged, got into their car and sped away.
 
Railsplitter said:
As a side story that you may find humorous, I was once the target of a "drive-by proselytization by Mormon missionaries. One got out of the car behind me and the other in front carrying their blue books. As they started into their spiel I enthusiastically asked them to volunteer where I work. I continued listing the application process, list of possible jobs, contacts etc. as their eyes glazed and they with no uncertain body language disengaged, got into their car and sped away.
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Hahaha :D:thumbsup:
 
debbie_h said:
Why would that be? Did no one ever resign before that?
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Short answer is, it is an Internet phenomena.

Long answer,:
  • a 1985 court case in Mesa, Az, U.S.,. Norman Hancock submitted a letter of resignation which the LDS Church responded to with a notice they intended to excommunicate him. He filed and won an $18 million lawsuit, claiming a person has a right to freely disengage themselves from a religious organization, and once they have done so, that organization does not have a right to take any action towards them.
Prior to this case, the LDS Church told people who wanted to leave the only way to do so was via excommunication. Because of this case, the church had to build in the process to accept resignations. (Information found at mormonnomore.com)
  • The websites exmormon org and mormonnomore.com came online in the 90’s, promoting and explaining the process for resignation. Like minded people, who had left the Mormon church, resigned. The idea and the method spread via the internet, and now there are numerous sites where people can learn the process for resigning and find support for doing so. Ad-hoc mass resignation dates are randomly generated from social media sites.
 
Also, he LDS church considers anyone who has been baptized into any other religion as apostate, so by your Christian baptism you will have left the Mormon church. Whether or not you are excommunicated or resign, it has the same effect to the Mormons.

I’d like to be excommunicated from Mormonism. It would be to me the definitive declaration of their non-Christian status.
 
iepuras said:
I think they do pay attention to the resignations. Publicly, the leadership ignores them, but I think they are really concerned. It hurts when educated members who have been paying thousands of dollars in tithing each year resign.
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Unlike my parents, I didn’t pay any tithing, so no financial loss for them from me 😛
 
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