Idiot Glee wrote:Leasara wrote:but they are continuing to treat me as a member of their church until they finish the little bureaucratic ritual they have for a person that states they wish to withdraw from the church.
Some rite of Requisition Bureaucratus?
What form do these punishments take? Are they messing with your family?
Well, they want my family, who are all mormons themselves, to mess with me. They're expecting that my family will try to pressure me to stay in the church. Actually, my father is just happy that I'm having my name removed (that's what they call it when you resign from the church, Name Removal) because it means that there is the possibility for my salvation in the afterlife.
What should have happened:
I sent the letter, they read the letter, they remove me from the church.
What has happened so far:
I sent the letter, they read the letter, they forwarded the letter to the local officials, they also notified (at least) my parents that I am seeking to leave the church. (technically I've left the church, but they disagree on that point. This can be construed as an invasion of privacy because of the way I worded my letter, but isn't worth pursuing.)
What might happen:
The local officials read the letter and:
- decide to do the necessisary paperwork to have my name removed from the records of the church. (this is the 'bureaucratic ritual' I was referencing. Not likely to happen. Takes about a month. I don't have to do anything. I don't sue them.)
- decide to try to council me and bring me back to the church. When this fails they will most likely begin excommunication proceedings. (More likely. Takes about a month to three months. My participation is requested, but I still don't have to do anything. Depending on how they handle the excommunication proceedings, I may bring suit against them. Would upset my father because excommunication does not allow for salvation in the afterlife. Actually, with his heart, it could kill him.)
In addition, and I'm hoping this happens, they could share my letter or certain information contained within my letter with someone outside of the Leadership. At that point I have a HUGE fargging lawsuit that I can win on my own for the cost of the court's filing fee. Like tens of millions of dollars huge. Much, much more if the redneck bigots around here catch wind of my transgendered status and act like redneck bigots tend to. Then I could potentially bankrupt the church.
Any which way, if I go to court, I'll at least be getting my GRS and a move to Chicago complete with a nice townhouse in the city.