Is it really a straw man, or just projection on Sandy's part? All Ex-Mo's know that most (not all) LDS are 'fair weather friends', that as long as a person remains LDS, their LDS friends are their friends, but as soon as a person leaves Mormonism they usually lose their LDS friends and family and are shunned. Sometimes they even lose their marriages just because they left the LDS church.
I have said before on FR that I lost all but 3 of my LDS friends - long before I was ever an 'anti' - just because I left Mormonism. So is Sandy setting up a straw man or is she just stating what happens in Mormonism and projecting that on to JR?
Sandy, how would your LDS husband and friends react if you left Mormonism? Is that partly what keeps you in? You wouldn't be the first person to stay in Mormonism in order to keep their friends/spouse.
Courtesy ping to JR.
I lost all of my LDS sect "friends", my wife, and they tried to take my daughters too. I had to get, and was awarded, a court order for the church to stay away from my daughters after I exposed to the judge what goes on in their "temples"...Annointing of nude "bosoms" and "loins" with oil, etc.
I have a letter from a stake president telling me that because my daughters were over the lds sect age of accountability of 8, and I had given up my "godly authority to rule over them" by resigning from the cult, I had no right to keep the church away from them. Sounds an awful lot like the FLDS practice of "re-assignment" doesn't it ?