When the church shortened sacrament meeting for Palm Sunday 2026, they called it inspired. When they reversed the LGBTQ policy in 2019, also revelation.
Jess and Hannah trace the five-step mechanism by which LDS institutional policy becomes divine revelation: identify a problem, trial a solution quietly, announce it as revelation, frame any revision as the Lord's timing, defend the change as sacred until the next change. The LGBTQ November Policy of 2015 classified same-sex married couples as apostates and barred their children from baptism. Its complete reversal 41 months later was also revelation. In the interval: resignations, torn families, and deaths by suicide. No apology was ever issued. The 2026 transgender handbook update applies the same designation used for those who have committed sexual abuse to transgender members. The Palm Sunday TikTok generated a live DARVO demonstration in the comments — Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender — that became one of the most instructive things they've ever seen in their mentions. If the schedule, the garments, the racial policy, and the LGBTQ policy all changed — what exactly was revealed in the first place?
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