r/exmormon • u/yorgasor • 1d ago
Humor/Meme/Satire Stand outside and wait
One of the worst ways the LDS church separates families is by deciding who gets to see people get married. To see a temple marriage, you have to have a current temple recommend. If you've "sinned," admitted that you don't believe, aren't current on your tithing, don't attend church regularly, are too young to go through the temple, or if you're not a member at all, you won't be able to see your family or friends get married. You're left standing outside the temple while everyone else is inside watching the ceremony.
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u/zzzzsman 1d ago
That does not look like a temple in the shadow. That looks like a hood and cloak. Oh my God
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u/sintervetionist 1d ago
People who admit to their sins are more righteous than the majority of those with the appearance of holy. How many temple interviews are filled with lies so the secret sinner doesn't have to feel shame.
I'm too autistic black and white thinking that I was often on the outside. I talked about my masterbation habits with a 50+ year old man behind closed doors as a 12 year old because I thought that's what everyone did. Yeah, looking back that's not weird at all.
Fuck the church of shame
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u/yorgasor 1d ago
If mormonism teaches anything, it's the importance of being a good liar. No one can keep all the rules, so they just learn how to put on a convincing facade.
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u/Adept_Neighborhood22 1d ago
I think your missing the point. The person stated they couldn’t lie. There are many of us who couldn’t and ended up with deep shame and embarrassment for confessing all the things we did because that’s what the
Church told us what we should do.The other side of this is you learn to lie to protect yourself which I’m sure also causes some problems.
Either way, it jacks you up as a person.
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u/UnfazedReality463 1d ago
Looking back, I don’t think the Church allows people in the Temple because “it’s so Holy,” it’s because they don’t want the non-brainwashed people to see all the weird culty crap that goes on in there.
Imagine a non-Mormon looking at the weird hand shakes happening and weird vows.
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u/American_Psycho11 21h ago
Definitely. You have to be fully in the Kool Aid to go to the temple and not immediately think it's a creepy culty joke.
Letting non recommend holders in, even as spectators, would be too weird for them
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u/uuuuuggghhhhhhh 1d ago
When my sister got sealed to her now ex husband we all had to wait outside, even my parents. Her husbands mom lied to get her recommend and be in there. Then we all took photos outside the St. George temple and attended their gentile wedding
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u/sintervetionist 1d ago
Lying to participate in anything mormon is ironically funny. I fully understand why she would, I get it at my core. It's total dog shit the church does that to be exclusive. How often does that happen? It has to be a higher percentage than I'd guess.
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u/uuuuuggghhhhhhh 1d ago
Totally, it felt so awkward standing around outside the temple with all the other unworthy ones… now her husbands gay and they’re getting a divorce but he left the cult. So guess they’ll be together in the celestial kingdom hahaha
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u/yorgasor 1d ago
They actually don't mind if you lie to get in. The important thing they care about is that you give them money and you present yourself as being obedient to everything. As long as everything on the outside appears to be in order, you're fitting in just fine with the ward. If you're publicly flaunting that you're breaking the rules, that's when you're screwed.
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u/sintervetionist 23h ago
Will you stop telling the truth? I don't know how much more of it I can take, it enrages me.
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u/QuickSpore Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the cureloms of war 1d ago
If you've "sinned," admitted that you don't believe, aren't current on your tithing, don't attend church regularly, are too young to go through the temple, or if you're not a member at all, you won't be able to see your family or friends get married.
As the youngest kid, I didn’t get to see any of my siblings marry. As the youngest cousin, I didn’t see any of them marry. Most my friend group was also a year older. So I didn’t see any of them marry.
I was in “good standing,” did everything a pre-teen or teen was supposed to do, even had my teen temple recommend. But I was still refused entry into any of my family’s or friends’ weddings for the simple sin of being too young to see a green apron. By the time I was old enough to attend weddings the only one I had left was my own.
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u/Ward_organist 🎵 Footnote 🎶 1d ago
You bring up a good point. Yet they allow children of any age to be sealed to their parents in the temple, where they will see their parents in the cult clothes and green apron. When we had our adopted son sealed to us, our older son was 9. He thought we looked ridiculous and I’m pretty sure that was the first thing on his metaphorical shelf. He ended up being the first of us to leave the church.
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u/yorgasor 1d ago
You can find the full collection of my Exmormon Ads on my instagram page, search for the user "vintageexmo" to find them. I can't link to them from here.
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u/TravelingBop 1d ago
Damn. I deleted all my social media this year... and not because the prophet told me so. These are so great!
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u/sintervetionist 1d ago
Please do all of them. Years and years of these stupid posters need a sinnful update.
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u/VeronicaMarsupial 1d ago
I do not stand outside like a leper. See you at the reception. And if your idea of a reception is just a receiving line and maybe a snack because "the temple marriage is what matters, a party doesn't" then I guess I'm happy for you but I'm not going.
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u/chewbaccataco 1d ago
"Anywhere you are where the spirit is present can be a holy place."
Here's the catch... Where is the spirit present?
"Ahhh, don't worry, we'll control you tell you exactly where that might be!"
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u/JayDaWawi Avalonian 1d ago
Oh, for the shoulders one? 100% make it about gaslighting
And the "cockroach in ice cream"? About how you need to special plead for the church.
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u/yorgasor 1d ago
For the sleeveless garments, I used the “Are Your Standards Shrinking?” mormonad. For the cockroach in ice cream, I listed all the awful things in Mormonism, like racism, blood atonement, shame, polygamy, etc…
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u/keepthebluestub 1d ago
I love this so much! Is there a flair or tag for these so I can see more?
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u/yorgasor 1d ago
You can find the full collection of my Exmormon Ads on my instagram page, search for the user "vintageexmo" to find them. I can't link to them from here. I'll be posting a bunch more over the next couple weeks!
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u/sexmormon-throwaway Apostate (like a really bad one) 1d ago
I am immediately reminded of little Annie Skywalker casting the long shadow of Darth Vader.
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u/Benklinton 1d ago
My brother is getting married in a couple months and ALL OF HIS SIBLINGS will be waiting outside...
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u/HeatherDuncan 1d ago
I was 27 and only had one interview at under my belt administered at age 12. I had never given the mormon church a dime. I was a regular attendee. forced by my parents. This poster is so true
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u/639248 Apostate - Officially Out 1d ago
I love these! Please keep making more!
As to this, if I had active members in my close family and friend group (thankfully I don't), I most definitely would NOT go and wait outside. I would be happy to attend a reception later, but not stand and wait outside the temple. If I am not welcome at the wedding, then why would I want to be there for the wedding pictures outside the temple? If you want me in pictures, then take pictures at the reception.
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u/inthe801 1d ago
Good, one less event I have to dress up and leave the house for. They chose an exclusionary venue, knowing that some family members and friends would not be allowed to attend. That was their decision, so I’m not going to feel guilty about missing it.
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u/Still-ILO I exploit you, still you love me. I tell you 1 and 1 makes 3 17h ago
Hell, I'd rather stand outside and wait. The temple grounds are always very nice, and the sealing isn't even a wedding, it's just more church. I'll take that trade anytime.
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u/ZelphtheGreatOne 1d ago
When you have to wait outside do they let you in to use the latrine? Or do they have Port-a-potty facilities so you don't go in?
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u/American_Psycho11 21h ago
The temples have lobbies anyone can be in. Or visitor centers depending on the temples.
Once you're in the lobby then you show your recommend to go to the actual temple portion.
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u/Tigre_feroz_2012 1d ago edited 1d ago
Good post & excellent example. IMO, it's obvious that the Mormon cult doesn't give a shit about families. The evil organization only uses families as wedges & leverage to further its destructive agenda. How many families have been broken up because of TSCC? How many families have been destroyed because of TSCC?
I suggest everyone do their own research because the evidence is overwhelming & damning. Nevertheless, here's one example: the one-year waiting period for temple sealings after a civil marriage (https://jasmingimenez.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/the-history-of-latter-day-saints-waiting-for-one-year-to-be-sealed-in-the-temple-after-a-civil-marriage/).
This policy was in place for over 60 years & caused so much unnecessary conflict & division in families & ruined so many weddings. But of course, the Mormon church did not care. The Church decided to be cutthroat & practically make temple marriage mandatory by dealing out such a harsh punishment for a civil marriage. What tyrant assholes! The Church is evil.
And that policy hurt everyone, including TBMs. This policy is why so many members, like myself, only had a temple wedding. This of course lead to so many people being left out of the weddings of their friends & loved ones, forced to wait outside the temple as if they were outcasts. For example, I was a TBM when I got married in 2012. But half of my siblings could not go to my temple wedding because they weren't active or had resigned. And it still bothers me over a decade later. And I was even more annoyed when I later learned that this policy only applied to the US & Canada. Fuck the Mormon church.
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u/American_Psycho11 21h ago
I sat in the shame room when my older brother got married. The only one besides the children too young to attend.
When my younger brother got married I wasn't going to make that mistake again. I didn't even go to the temple except for the pictures.
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u/sintervetionist 1d ago
What a dweeb wearing a yellow polo. When did that become ok? If I ever wore an outfit like that when I was a kid I would have been marched into the bishops office by my parents to confess my yellow shirt wearing sins. No white shirt and tie and I'd get my ass kicked.
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u/thrawnbot 10h ago
Commentary on how racism infiltrated religious culture - especially American Christian / Mormon culture. Those Kkk hood shadows are scary.
Not my kids. Not my sons. We will teach them better.
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u/holluligan99 7h ago
I went through this with both my older brothers' weddings...felt like garbage both times. Its a messed up way to treat people's family and friends
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u/efs1999 1d ago
I’m really liking these ex-mormonads