https://askgramps.org/bishops-and-divorce/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:29:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://askgramps.org/bishops-and-divorce/#comment-35701 Fri, 12 May 2017 20:04:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12652#comment-35701 AFAIK there is no specific Church policy that callings to a position of being an official representative of the Church, like a bishop or stake president, are closed to men who’ve been divorced or who’ve married a ‘soiled dove’.
Certainly the Church is thorough in whom it calls to such positions. A man who has had significant problems in upholding Church standards may experience divorce as a consequences, OTOH, sometimes said disobedience does NOT cost him his marriage. Men and women also experience situations where they’ve no realistic choice save to divorce an ‘errant’ spouse, in spite of their own faithfulness. Every situation is unique, and the Lord is smart enough to not disqualify men who have done their best to lead a good life for a situation brought on by the misdeeds of another. And even persons who’ve made serious mistakes can demonstrate repentance; again, AFAIK, there’s no ‘scarlet’ letter on their membership record. Finally, even if a woman had made mistakes which led to the demise of her prior marriage, she too can and ought to be able to repent, and her past should not diminish the abilities of her present husband.

]]> https://askgramps.org/bishops-and-divorce/#comment-34673 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:12:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12652#comment-34673 I had a bishop who had been divorced and was in his second marriage. His wife had also been divorced in a previous marriage

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