Testimony Sunday occurs in LDS wards every first Sunday of the month. Basically, active LDS can choose to go to the podium and address how faith in Jesus Christ has effected them. While it's true, sometimes the testimonies talk about things other than Jesus Christ, most of the time He is the sole focus. Apparently, some people in Utah have hijacked testimony Sunday this week and used it for their own purposes. A video of one of these incidents is making the rounds.
Whatever your feelings are for the sex scandal that these interruptions are in regards to, interrupting a fast and testimony Sunday is not the best way to further your cause. I support the bishops 100% who asked the speakers to leave. Spouting off your personal problems with the church is not appropriate in that setting in any way, shape or form.
My heart breaks for victims of sexual assault. I hope they get their day in court and if the perpetrator is guilty of it, then he should get the death penalty, depending on the severity of the assault. However, LDS churches are not courthouses. This was a grave lapse in judgment by the speakers this weekend.
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