Taking Back What Was Lost to Religious Fundamentalism — Reuniting With My Disfellowshipped Father

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As a nation that defends the human right to religious freedom, we must reckon with the pain that the rigid application of religious and ideological beliefs can bring upon our lives. This is a story of such pain and loss; a story of faith gone bad and of the dark side of the very beliefs that we look to for light in the dense…