And then looking at her reddit account's history, you can see where she created sock puppet reddit accounts that she used to drum up publicity about all this.
this is puzzling. Based on Water Dog's evidence, there is ONE deleted account, used in the ONE thread he showed, which has 16 comments. (WOW--that is viral!!
)And when I went to the one thread, above the author line where it says deleted, she has posted the podcast website! If that is her anonymously drumming up publicity, she really doesn't know how to do it.
In the other image, Water Dog defines as Heather "outing herself," as per the highlighted comment half way down. However, he failed to look at the very first (sort by best) comment on that thread:
Don't know why wD would call a later comment "outing herself" when this post is there. It gives a lot of first person information about the mother's perspective. WD is under no obligation to believe it, but I feel there has to be a significant reason to not take her word at face value. I'm not seeing a reason.Hey all, I just want to clear a few things up here. This was my daughter. My husband is TBM, and takes my four youngest children to church, I stay home with our oldest. She has been struggling with her faith, as you could imagine. Her mom left, and the church has crappy policies against gays. She deserves her own faith journey, and she isn't leaning on anyone's testimony in or out of the church. This obviously just solidified her feelings in one direction. My husband and I went through MUCH deliberating on wether or not to let her do this. She wanted to be herself in front of them, see if church would be a place to accept her, and to speak up in case there was another LGBT person in the congregation that needed to hear they weren't alone. This was her idea, much to the contrary of my neighbors beliefs. I could have said no, don't say this, don't do this, but that would be telling my child to hide, telling her she's not good enough to have a space to speak. Or I could let her be her, and speak her truth. I went over the possible natural consequences of this, and she was willing to accept them. She wrote her words very carefully, even had her TBM dad read them to see if they were respectful enough for the pulpit. He agreed they were. She was asked to step down, and she bawled coming off, and I took her out. She cried in my arms in the foyer, I affirmed to her that she is perfect and beautiful, and too big for them to see it. She got a circle of hugs from our friends, and we say in the grass outside and let her say all of her words. I'm very aware of the way the church feels towards LGBT people, however I truly thought they would have let her say her words. If it had been our bishop (who was out of town) and not a member of the stake, I think this would have been very different. Instead this stake member chose to hurt my child, I don't know his reasons, I haven't spoken to him. I didn't ask for this to explode like this, and I'm being accused of having any agenda from the get go. Hell my agenda was to support my child in owning her voice. Not to hurt anyone.
My take on this is that Water Dog has an opinion--I have no problem with that!-- which he is very inadequately trying to justify with things like the bizarre interpretations he has attached to the reddit information and the fox article.
He would have more credibility if he just said his opinion was his gut reaction, and he has no objective proof. (And retracted his homophobic slurs.)
(ETA-don't mean to talk third person, WD, but I'm assuming you left the thread when you said you were done.)