[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
20 years ago today - Apr 4, 1992
[General] Apostle Richard G Scott tells general conference that LDS women should avoid "morbid probing into details of past acts, long buried and mercifully forgotten," and that "the Lord may prompt a victim to recognize a degree of responsibility for abuse." Among his concluding remarks: "Remember, false accusation is also a sin," and 'bury the past." Unspoken background to his remarks is that in recent years current stake presidents and temple workers have been accused of child abuse by their now adult children. SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that suicide prevention lines are swamped with telephone calls by women in days after Scott's remarks.
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The correct source reference is MH:EP, p.888 (aka, DMQ-2, p.888).
ReplyDeleteI generally love this blog, but this particular entry is a completely inaccurate representation of Elder Scott’s counsel. For one thing, his counsel was not to women per se, nor even just to Latter-day Saints; it was directed to any victim of abuse.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, while the quotes above are indeed accurate, it would help to include at least an entire sentence of context. Read for yourself. In context, the comments are both extremely loving and completely appropriate.
Thumbs down, guys.