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‘Mormon Land’: What role can or should forgiveness play in sexual abuse cases?

How patriarchy and “cheap forgiveness” sometimes protect predators in the LDS Church.

(Courtesy and AP photos) Latter-day Saint theologian In a "Mormon Land" podcast, Deidre Nicole Green, left, and Chelsea Goodrich, who has accused her father of molesting her during childhood, challenge a version of "cheap forgiveness" that, they say, Latter-day Saints and other Christian communities sometimes use, papering over real and, at times, systemic harm.