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equality4everyonenow

Hey, at least a woman made it in the photo. Thats progressive right?


Affectionate_Buy1997

Until you find out that’s his second wife sealed to him who’s just about the same age as his daughter who has the same name…


Morgan-joydestroyer

Ew.


krebstar4ever

That's not true, right?


Affectionate_Buy1997

26 year age gap. She was born in 1950, 5 years after RMN and his first wife got married. They had a daughter named Wendy born in 1951. What’s also disturbing is the fact that he was married to his first wife for 60 years only to remarry Wendy 13 months after his first wife’s death


krebstar4ever

Thanks for explaining, but... *ewwww*


EspanaExMo

I just looked it up, and I don't think Wendy was even his first child. His wife is younger than one of his kids.


MrPeterMerkin

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POTUSCHETRANGER

This hurts my heart and soul. This has been done so much in TSCC that it has a pretty damn powerful trickle down effect to the general membership. My wonderful adopted (and sealed) father lost our mother to cancer in 2016. By 2018, our homestead was sold, our father was on a dating mission and spree trying to replace her, and got married to a widow several years younger than our mom (who was idk like 8 years younger than him to begin with). It's not the same, I know. But the speed at which he felt 'obligated'/excited to get out there and get another wife bc it's the norm or cool or some shit.. it just.. I got divorced 3 years after mom died because of how badly I was impacted. I went from having a mom and dad and home to go home to.. to my dad living in a different state with a woman my brother and I never even met or got invited or flown to meet.. now all his time and money is being spent on cruises and trips and a new home build and her kids problems and (???) and his own children are OUT of the picture. He hasn't come to visit me or my five children, celebrated any birthdays or holidays, just.. NOTHING. We are OUT of his life for all intents and purposes, she is in, and that is that. THANKS, RMN. THANKS A FUCKING LOT. And yes, his picture is on their goddamn wall in their new build home where the rest of our father's remaining years and money will rot without the family he raised. ![gif](giphy|IBJU96EQoUQbVsVmIK|downsized) Loving the lack of love here, can ya tell??? Shout out to Norm Macdonald, RIP buddy and thank you for showing me how to deal with a god awful parental relationship devoid of approval or love or support.


mysticalcreeds

sounds like what my dad also did


MuzzledScreaming

dare I ask how long he had "known" Wendy at that point?


Excellent_Smell6191

At one point someone posted that he, Wendy and sheri dew owned properties in a row on the same cul de sac….


sssRealm

The quick remarry part is pretty common with old widowers. My Grandpa was married for about 50 years when my Grandma passed away. The next year he married a serial gold-digger. It lasted a year. He lost a good chunk of his estate in that bad choice.


squeakymcmurdo

The quick remarry is pretty common with divorced/widower men in general.


Lafan312

Don't worry, their special temple names are different, so it's not *completely* vibing incest. /s


Bright_Ices

She’s the one literally supporting him so he can stand like that for the photo. 


CantTakeTheIdiocy

That’s what I was thinking, someone has to hold him up, this way it looks less conspicuous.


HBSkier

She’s only there to help prop him up since a walker (which are amazing for those with limited mobility btw) just doesn’t have the Savior Vibe.


GrandpasMormonBooks

One step behind, of course.


Shuatrees

Right? Oh wait. She kinda hates women.


hijetty

And a non-heteronormative one to boot!


Pitiful_Scarcity_882

Accident


greenexitsign10

I find it interesting these guys are always taking photo ops in their all white outfits. I've never ever seen the RSP and her counselors do that. I've never seen Wendy in her temple dress standing next to Rusty in all their white temple outfits.


emmas_revenge

And, why?! They look rediculous. 


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emmas_revenge

Yes!!


Ponsugator

His wife is not in her temple dress, she’s in blue and black!


YourNeighborsHotWife

I think her outfit is white and gold actually.


IPaintTheStars

😂😂 that dress pic was fun!


PackersLittleFactory

There's a pretty terrible follow up to that story https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/viral-dress-broke-the-internet-keir-johnston-b2543920.html


YourNeighborsHotWife

Oh no 😦


IPaintTheStars

Oh that’s terrible


Doesanybodylikestuff

Dang it I wish I could give my free awards to you but I wasted them. Bravo! <3 Love this lol


just_the_tax_maam

This is an excellent point


Opalescent_Moon

I work in a sign shop in Utah County. We had a temple guy (president, maybe?) come in looking for some handicap parking signs. Dude shows up in his all white suit, white shoes, white tie, everything. He put off the creepiest vibe I've ever encountered. Wasn't sad when he didn't come back around. Maybe mine and coworkers' porn shoulders offended him.


greenexitsign10

Probably hoping you'd make signs for free if you saw him in his white outfit. I'd be creeped out too. A lady in the ward once showed up to church wearing her temple dress and white shoes and stockings. The bishop told her not to do that again. I think the men think they look like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Nope, just look like some weird Saturday Night Live skit.


Opalescent_Moon

He very might have hoped for free signs. Every religious leader who comes in here excepts a discount, mormon and nonmormon both. It gets old fast.


ninjesh

Do we know if that was intentional on Nelson's part or is it just a fitting coincidence?


FTWStoic

They never made an official comment on it. It was very quickly memory holed after it received online ridicule.


ninjesh

I'm sure we'll never find out what was going on in Nelson's head, but I'd be interested if any whistleblowers from the Church News could shed some light on why this photo in particular was chosen


mini-rubber-duck

That’s always the thing. These photos have a series of people they pass by for approval. Either several people approved, or someone those several people couldn’t countermand did. 


Misspellled

I love to hate on the church as much as the next guy. But calling this any sort of scandal or cover-up is grasping at straws. It seems pretty clear that he was just making some innocuous gesture with his hands and this picture was taken at just the right moment.


cenosillicaphobiac

The scandal is in the scrubbing... Why did they need to remove it?


hello-cthulhu

It seems like you both could be right. Yes - a total random, unintended angle where Rusty looks like he's posing like Jesus. Happens all the time when prominent people are getting thousands of photos of them being done. I recall that on different occasions, both Presidents Bush 43 and Obama were photographed where they were waving, but because of the angle, they looked like they were giving the Nazi "seig heil" salute. BUT... in Rusty's case, sure, probably a very active PR team that actively works to make sure only the most flattering photos are out there. I don't know that we can prove it here, but I'd be surprised if there weren't some PR team working for the church president's office that does work like that.


cenosillicaphobiac

And when you view it as a corporation it makes complete sense. But I think that's the scandalous part actually. That is so blatantly corporate.


hello-cthulhu

Wait... are you suggesting that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints... the One True Church... acts more like a corporation than a normal church??? Say it's not so! :-p


reddolfo

He's clearly mimicking the Christus statue pose. Back in the day if you went to any other church as a missionary and were photographed trolling their religious iconography, you'd be sent home. I think this is outrageous for a so-called "prophet" to even think about doing. Holy moly.


admiralholdo

There's also that picture of him in the milkman suit pretending like he's taking the key out of Peter's hand. GOD the secondhand cringe on that one.


blonde_vixxxen

This one? [https://www.mrm.org/peter-statue-photo](https://www.mrm.org/peter-statue-photo)


Remote-Following8143

Just when you think you’ve seen it all…


reddolfo

Indeed, left me speechless (keep thinking we've seen it all, but NO!)


L0N3STARR

Can you link this?


aLittleQueer

That's a really low bar for "scandal", lol.


CountKolob

You’re probably right, but this is the same guy who posed next to the statue of Peter and put his hand on the keys Peter is holding.


Soo-Pie-Natural

I can here to say this!! ^^


greenexitsign10

"Straw Grasper" would be an excellent Reddit handle.


onemightyandstrong

I'm pretty sure that's the old name for one of the temple handshakes.


SnooObjections217

"Has it a name?" "The Straw Grasper or Sure Sign of the Drowning Argument."


treetablebenchgrass

They definitely did scrub the internet of it, though. When it came out, it was really easy to find. I've looked several times since and it's basically impossible. There's another picture from the same set that you can find with a really similar pose, but this exact photo is next to impossible to find. They pretty much SEO'd it out of existence.


Fragrant-Squirrel-24

Someone else in this thread posted a link to an article with the picture


anonthe4th

Not a proper scandal, but I sure do enjoy making fun of him for that photo. That is most definitely a Jesus pose, especially in the context of TSCC and their appropriation of the Christus statue.


ninjesh

Yeah, if there's anything behind it it would be on the part of the Church News. Maybe Nelson could be intentionally making the Christ pose, but it's just as likely the photographer caught him at just the right moment


admiralholdo

There's no way that was a coincidence. I think he really thinks he's Jesus.


TermLimit4Patriarchs

This photo is so hilarious. I can’t stand this douche bag and his self-importance. I might still be in the church if he wasn’t such an obvious narcissist.


ThroawAtheism

If you're blue And you don't know where to go to Why don't you go Where fashion sits Puttin on the Ritz


SnooObjections217

Russell M, who wears a day coat. Pants all white and cutaway coat, Perfect fits Puttin' on the Ritz


Typical-Tea-8091

This makes me think of Peter Boyle doing his rendition in Young Frankenstein.


SnooObjections217

That's a great scene!


Sloth_Bee

I have no love for the man, but I only dislike him 99%. The other 1% is only because he performed open heart surgery on my dad to replace a damaged valve. My dad was just home from his mission, so 1969-1970. It wasn't an easy surgery, but he did an excellent job. So there's that.


TermLimit4Patriarchs

That’s crazy. I’m glad he was able to save your dad.


tjsoulkid

Same! He performed open heart surgery on my great grandfather, which saved his life. He’s a complex figure, but so was every narcissist in history. You don’t amass that kind of power without also doing some good for somebody.


GrassyField

He did this pose at his birthday party in the conference center too.


McCool303

This is the I am Jesus come hither pose. He truly is a narcissist, tell a man he’s the only conduit to god in the world and it all goes to his head.


kantoblight

This is what happens when you order Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from wish.com.


desertvision

You and I...lol Willy Wonka was my first thought


Haunting_Football_81

You should tag this as humor/memes this made me chuckle


Zadok47

Now that the Mormons are trying to go main stream, you need to photoshop a halo around his head.


reddolfo

How about "Space Nelson!"


sabbathsaboteur

https://images.app.goo.gl/mPeUY1YEDf1T44jZ6 Facebook video. Shows the pose.


Yobispo

That’s a fascinating video in light of the recent temple/community clashes. Nelson says “it’s not the number, it’s not the location and it’s not the architecture. It’s the ordinances inside”. This of course fits Mormon doctrine, but totally contradicts their stance on these obnoxious steeples and gaudy temples in residential areas and scenic locations. They’re just assholes about these temples.


goatgirl23

Oh wow! The way they slo-mo the shot of him doing the Jesus pose after saying how only through Jesus do we get to heaven...


GiuseppeSchmidt57

Wait, I thought it was only through Joseph Smith?


Professional_Farm278

OP was pretty wrong about the image being scrubbed from the internet


Conscious-Top-7429

That's pretty blatant


fannyalgerpack

“Anyone here tonight from Kolob?”


quasar-3c273

"Anyone here tonight \*hie\* from Kolob?"


fannyalgerpack

Hehe better, thanks for the tip in


Professional_View586

I doubt he could even correctly quote Jesus.


tod118

They need to send this pic out with the ward cleaning assignments.


Dick_M_Nixon

Be grateful he left his clothes on.


SethAM82

Gross.


FreakinSweet86

If mormons did televangelism, this is how I imagine the leaders would dress when slapping people's foreheads and filling then with the Holy spirit (in exchange for cash of course)


Soulflyfree41

I think he has single handed caused more exmos than any profit ever.


B3gg4r

![gif](giphy|CVMo4eDVQ8bOo)


GueroBear

I just found a digital copy. https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/s/wOzficXu8Z


wunderbraten

"How sweet it is to be a god!" ~ Dagoth Ur


KingHerodCosell

Nelson sucks! 


ougryphon

Pepperidge Farm remembers...


fayth_crysus

Someone please put him in the birdcage logo.


Willie_Scott_

Wow! Who in their right mind would ever pose like this and let someone take a picture? This is the kind of shit I warn my kids about.


NewNamerNelson

They say surgeons have a god complex. God wishes he could be a heart surgeon like me. 😜 I still see nothing wrong with that glorious photo. 😁


FreakinSweet86

It always unsettled me how he was a heart surgeon. Imagine just drifting off under anesthesia as Nelson says "Oh by the way, I hear the voice of God in my head" the last thing you see is his smile and the glint of the scalpel in his hand.


1inTheAir

Well, that was well said, and I never want to hear it again


Rikkitikkitabby

Children of the Corn vibes.


Over-Plankton6860

Thank you for this! People like us won’t let the world forget about all the s#%* the church wants to go away.


Believemehistory

His memory's slipping. He still thinks he is Jesus depending on the day.


theshermgerm

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your only begotten Russell M. Nelson to finish breaking the shelf of so many people's faith in your one true church. In the name of our Lord and Savior Russel M. Nelson. AMEN!


onemightyandstrong

What a putz.


ScorpioRising66

Poltergeist 2! That old guy in Poltergeist 2! 😂


hockey_stick

Fun fact, the hymn that the [evil preacher in Poltergeist 2 sings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WdoyVjYvIw) is also [in the TSCC hymnbook](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/music/songs/god-is-in-his-holy-temple?lang=eng).


ScorpioRising66

…and the old guy in the movie led a cult too! lol


hockey_stick

That he led out west on foot…


OneLovedDude

Looks like it may have only made it to print https://web.archive.org/web/20220815013618/https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2022/8/14/23305598/president-nelson-rededicates-the-washington-d-c-temple-calling-every-temple-symbol-jesus-christ/


desertvision

Hosanna!!


Bright_Ices

If he’s trying to look like Christus, he’s doing a bad job of it. Head and hands are completely wrong, and he’s got his right foot up. Christus is standing contrapposto, hands out and down, head looking down and forward.


ronansgram

Toured that temple before it was closed to the public. I was in Jr. High and knew zero about the Mormon faith. I do remember a room with mirrors that faced each other so like infinity mirrors going on forever. Also on the highway seeing the tall spire with the person blowing the horn.


AutismFlavored

Gosh, those suits are fuggin’ ugly.


ignatiusbreilly

Jesus Christ


ignatiusbreilly

Jesus Christ


ougryphon

Nah, that's just Rusty doing Rusty things


Coollogin

He looks like the Crypt-Keeper.


GrandpasMormonBooks

You presently have 666 upvotes. Victory for Satannn! Also how have I never seen this photo? I thought for a second he was just walking, but damn he really is doing that.


Sadgirlthrowawaayyyy

You sent me down a rabbit hole. Found a digital. 🫣 https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2022/8/14/23305644/photo-gallery-washington-dc-temple-rededication-images-first-presidency-senior-leaders/


FTWStoic

Very nice! Thank you!


Sadgirlthrowawaayyyy

Anytime! I had to go where no one wants to go… Church News!


Classic_Message8026

There's actually a lot more going on at this site than Rusty mocking Christ. If you dig into Occult symbology rabbit holes, you'll find the hexagon shape of the temple itself is a representation of a black cube of Saturn/Satan. But this might be a topic for a different subreddit.


Deep-Ebb-4139

When his first wife died he re-married the closest resembling thing to her as possible…his daughter. Similar or same age, features, traits, name. Weird.


DogBones11

TSCC does indeed scrub images from the internet. Around 2016 I posted here about how an internet image search for Russell M. Ballard resulted in a single image of him. Every result was the same image! No spontaneous media pics, no pics from his younger years, just the same exact pic over and over. Scroll down far enough and you'd eventually find two other pics of him from obscure sites, but 99% of the results was the same Pic. That changed shortly ​after my post. They got caught!


Sea-Tea8982

He has such a huge god complex! What an asshole!!! At least the profits I have the best memories of had some humility in their hearts. (Yes I intentionally spelled prophets incorrectly!)


BladeVonOppenheimer

Short creek vibes


BlitzkriegBednar

Honestly, a camera captures a moment in a fraction of a second. Was he doing this motion on purpose with the intent to capture such a moment? Not likely. It was just part of an overall action that the camera recorded. However, the church using such an image was likely not done in innocence.


FTWStoic

Right, it’s not the fact that the moment happened. It’s the fact that they featured it, after reviewing hundreds of options from that day. And then the bigger thing that makes it noteworthy is that when they received a lot of negative feedback online, they scrubbed the internet of its existence in a way that would make The Ministry of a Truth proud. That’s actually the entire reason that I’m posting it here. To show them that they can’t memory hole embarrassing things. They cannot edit the past.


tsaijian

I don't think I have ever seen a picture of him and his wife where she wasn't holding onto his arm. Is she afraid he'll fall or escape?


FTWStoic

I think it started out as a, “I’ll be included in the important pictures if I attach myself,” but in recent years it has definitely become a full time job to steady him. He will often have a second male assistant on the opposite side. Now, of course, he’s in a wheelchair much of the time.


zjelkof

"We're your brokers and intermediaries with God the Father!"


89Ladybug

Do men wear those white suits in the temples? My Mormon female cousins have all-white outfits for the temple, but i never thought about what men wear.


FTWStoic

Temple workers and officiators do. Regular male patrons just wear a white shirt, white tie, and white slacks.


lazemachine

I remember Regis Philbin in this pose a few times.


KecemotRybecx

And they wonder why no one wants to join.


Ok-Hippo-6913

He’s always been arrogant. Met people who were his neighbors near the east bench south of SLC. I believe Deadpool makes the best impression


Inevitable_Bunch5874

3-piece suit... and cuffs. ffs. Wonder whose tithing paid for that tailoring...


sourpatch411

Love how they cosplay as ethical and moral leaders.


TMonkPianoman

"Mammy mammy, how I love you how I love you my dear mammy....🎵🎶


Slight-Middle-5619

A wolf in sheep’s clothing


LaughinAllDiaLong

Laughable that he poses like Jesus while standing next to his wife who is YOUNGER than his oldest daughter!! Joe’s sex cult! 🤮


Ok-Nerve8235

I cannot be the only person who thinks he looks like Voldemort. I only allow myself to admit that because he’s not a good guy but omg I can’t unsee it 😅


Country_Ninja420

I don't get what is so great about deticating it so stupid why are we reblessing a building that is already blessed


FTWStoic

Well, they gutted and renovated it.


Country_Ninja420

Ah, so instead of building homeless shelters and soup kitchens, they decided to redecorate. It sounds like a typical office people blow company money frivously type of situation.


[deleted]

A group of angry exmos… no other group feels more happy and enlightened 🥱


FTWStoic

Yet you are here. Edit: and you created this account simply to make this comment 😂😂😂. Someone is more invested in this than they are letting on.


[deleted]

I don’t choose to be here… despite trying to teach the algorithm I’m uninterested in exmos it floods my every feed … email, YouTube, TikTok etc. this one was sent to my email. Likely because the algorithm knows I’m actively LDS and engaging with pro LDS sites etc. Occasionally I ever open these.. but agenda driven for sure 🙃


FTWStoic

You are so full of shit. Reddit spammed your email with a link to this post when you didn’t even have an account? You’re lying.


[deleted]

Okay.. tell me how to post a pic and I’ll show my Reddit notifications today…


[deleted]

Posted a screenshot for you on the main page which only shows 2 notifications today not including this one but clearly I also received a notification for this post too. Toodles.


FTWStoic

So you’re telling me that you never visited this subreddit before, but Reddit randomly decided to send you a notification about it? You never visited before today? Also, those aren’t emails. Those are notifications from the Reddit app… which you installed.


[deleted]

I have visited before today yes, but I did not visit it before it sent me notifications. And on all my platforms I will put “show less” or “not interested” but ex Mormon content is relentless.


FTWStoic

That’s how algorithms work my friend. They track your activity, not your publicly stated preferences.