MormonThink Exposed

at 10:55 PM

After supposedly using the media to get the Church to back off from a disciplinary council, David Twede publicly resigned tonight at an ex-Mormon conference.

More here: http://en.fairmormon.org/Criticism_of_Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Media_efforts_by_MormonThink_editor_David_Twede

at 9:42 PM

Oct 4 update: More details here: http://en.fairmormon.org/Criticism_of_Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Media_efforts_by_MormonThink_editor_David_Twede

On the forum at lds.net, a thread was started on 8/24/12 by a "starlight012":

Report bad member?

Hi, I am new to the forum. I want help. There is a member who is posting anti-mormon information and claiming to be a member in good standing. I know him, his name and want his leaders to encourage him to stop.

What do I do?

it's an article at that mormon think website.

(link to political candidate discussion removed by moderator)

I hope it isn't inappropriate to post and ask this here, but I don't know where else to do it.

Last edited by starlight012; 08-24-2012 at 06:46 PM. Reason: link to article about Mitt Romney

The thread winds on for 4 pages, at which point a moderator states:

The person who started this IS the person who writes the blog, whose deception here will tell you all you need to know about his sense of ethics.

Last edited by Eowyn; 09-24-2012 at 11:18 PM.

During the discussion, "starlight012" revealed in a private message that the "bad member" was named David Twede. Twede then created an account as himself from the same IP address that "starlight012" was using.

I will leave it to the reader to connect the dots.

at 4:17 PM

If you are looking for David Twede's blog where he chronicled his efforts to encourage members of the Church to leave (which he told his bishop and stake president he would take down) he has moved it to http://mormonthinkblog2012.blogspot.com/

at 11:44 AM

Mormonthink was pivotal in showing me the truth as it was with so many others. I had actually been inactive for over a year but still would have NEVER read the site had it not been run by currently active LDS people...Without thinking that MT was a "safe" place to read, I would not have gone there.
phoebe64, posted on Recovery from Mormonism, September 20, 2012.

I agree that it is very helpful to "the cause" for [MormonThink] to seem like a safe place to be. I'm pretty sure I never could've gotten my husband to read it and proceed out if it hadn't at least seemed fairly balanced. A lot of people who want to change the Church think there is more power from working from within. I can see that point.
dogeatdog, posted on Recovery from Mormonism, September 20, 2012.

If [David Twede] is done for apostasy, the site will be off limits . While the editors are in good standing, members can visit the site in good faith and not feel like they are threatening their temple recommend.
spanner, posted on Recovery from Mormonism, September 20, 2012.

Read more at http://en.fairmormon.org/Criticism_of_Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Overview#Testimonials_from_those_who_no_longer_believe_in_the_Church_because_of_MormonThink