This episode covers scrupulosity (the religious OCD subtype David describes, and why its symptoms are literally indistinguishable from faithfulness in a high-control environment), the priesthood structure that gave his father theological authority over his identity and career, and the November Policy — the 2015 handbook update that classified same-sex couples as apostates and barred their children from baptism. Russell Nelson called it revelation. There were documented suicides. Forty-one months later the reversal was also called revelation. No apology. No accounting. Just an updated handbook and an expectation that members receive it as further light.
Russell Ballard told David it was the most in-depth conversation he'd ever had with a gay person. He was an apostle. He was setting policy. He had never asked.
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