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Oct 27, 2021
11:29:32am
krindorr Contributor
This is why social media is so terrible, because the exaggeration that comes in waves
In the span of this post we've gone from

"Sharief Shah told his wife that he wasn't personally comfortable joining the church because of some of their past racial policies. She then joined his because she valued consistency between parents more than the actual doctrines"

To

"Sharief Shah convinced his wife that the church is racist and that she should leave because the church is bad"

To
"Sharief Shah believes that all members of the church are racists"

Here's the actual story
"When I was about five years into my marriage, we had our first son and it was time to start thinking about how we are going to raise him under one religion. It was important to me that we had consistency, I didn't want my son to be confused with what mommy is practicing and what dad is practicing," Shah revealed. "So I told my husband, I just assumed he would convert to Mormonism and that's when he was like, ‘Well, no because they didn't accept Black people into the Mormon church until like the late 1970s.' I initially didn't believe him because I had never heard that and I grew up in the church. So I went to do some research and asked for guidance and the questions to be answered from my bishop, my mom and nobody could really give me an answer other than, ‘That's just how it was.' And so at that time I just didn't feel comfortable. I didn't feel that I could continue subscribing to a religion that didn't accept my husband and my kids. I didn't know how to explain to them why that was the reason."

So sounds like she wasn't a super strong member to begin with (given she'd never heard of blacks not having the priesthood and that parental consistency was more important to her than what the religion actually believes), but let's not keep slowly exaggerating
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