Mormonleaks

Mormonleaks has released some documents that purport to show living allowances of some high up leaders in the church.  One document shows that the living expenses for general authorities has gone up from  $116,400 to $120,000 in 2014. Another document shows what Henry Eyring was paid in the year 2000. The final few documents were records from some meetings. I have not read the documents yet.

You can argue about if these records should have been leaked or not, but that's a moot point. They were leaked. You can't wave a magic wand and tell people to forget or not read them. You can argue the legality of violating privacy rights and that's a fair point. I tend to be very sympathetic to whistleblowers. While I do accept that there are some things that the public doesn't need to know in the name of national security, the LDS church isn't in charge of national security. Mormonleaks would be completely out of line and totally unethical to release the private, personal matters (church discipline, social security numbers, etc) of it's members-higher ups or not-and they haven't done that so far to my knowledge.

If you have a problem with the church leaders getting paid, then you need to grow up a bit. These men could be making huge money in their private fields. Eyring was a chemist who could be living a fat and pampered life in academia right now. He, along with the rest of them are taking massive pay cuts to work for the Lord. Even apostles and their families need to eat and pay rent.