I had never seen a member of my immediate family subjected to church discipline before, but it wasn't special family ties that made the situation untenable. It was the fact that for the first time in my life, the accused were people I lived with and knew most intimately. I had direct, firsthand knowledge of their daily lives and habits, and I knew that the judgements leveled by the elders were wrong. They were wrong about my mother. They were wrong about my sister. And I strongly suspected they'd been wrong about my cousin, too. I could not acquiesce to their conclusions the way I'd done with so many others before. I could no longer blindly trust the judgment of these men.
-- Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow, p. 158
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