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The Mormon Alliance Decries Actions against Jeppson “A shocking revelation that the LDS Church really does have a double standard”
March 16, 2005 The Mormon Alliance, an organization that documents ecclesiastical abuse in the LDS Church and advocates for a more sensitive leadership, has isued a statement decrying the plans for displinary actions recently announced against Affirmation member Buckley Jeppson. "The Mormon Alliance deplores this threatened disciplinary council in the strongest terms," wrote Trustee Lavina Fielding Anderson. "It exposes an essential hypocrisy in the Church's position that everyone is being held to the same standard of chastity outside marriage and fidelity within marriage. Buckley Jeppson and Mike Kessler went to considerable trouble and inconvenience to make their union a legal marriage. For Buckley to be threatened with church discipline for his fidelity in this marriage is a shocking revelation that the LDS Church really does have a double standard." "It is particularly hypocritical for his leaders to invite him to quietly resign. Such an action, given Buckley's faithful attendance and strong belief in Mormonism, benefits, not him, but the Church alone. It would relieve the Church from the need to confront its own brutal and inconsistent policy and would allow it to further stigmatize Buckley as not valuing his church membership." "This is truly an opportunity for the Church to examine its policy against the deeper, truer principles of Christlike love. The Mormon Alliance hopes it will do so." For more information on the Mormon Alliance, visit www.mormonalliance.org  .
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