Posted   For week ended December 28, 2001

Churchwide News

Utah Ex-LDS Members Say They Are No Longer Treated as Neighbors
Worried about what would befall them once word of their defection spread through their Mormon-dominated town, it took 16 months for Suzy Colver and her husband to work up the courage to officially quit the Mormon church. They didn't have to wait long, Colver said. Instantly her family became the neighborhood pariah. She lost every one of her Mormon friends and she wasn't asked to volunteer at her kids' elementary school anymore.

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