Gordon Bowen was a man about town in New York City, an advertising prodigy who had managed to lie, cheat, and steal his way to the top of his craft. He knew what a good idea looked like, even if he didn’t have good ideas of his own. His personal life was a series of contradictions. Bowen was outwardly a pious Latter Day Saint who openly referenced his faith in personal and professional conversations. Inwardly, Bowen was a man deeply conflicted about his attraction to other men.
He had pursued his coworker Lincoln Kevin Kelly with such obvious fervor that Kelly would be warned by a coworker, Tom Bogner, that Bowen was in love with him. Bowen also cruised the gay bars and nightclubs of New York City, seeking interactions with other gay men. His homosexuality was an open secret in both New York and Salt Lake City, as he spiraled and devolved over the years. The inner conflict of Bowen’s lives and lies would manifest in myriad ways throughout his life. His near lifelong obsession with high school classmate Barbara Timothy was juxtaposed against his clear attraction to other men, and Bowen’s relationships with women could be seen as a means of publicly portraying himself as a normal man and a faithful Latter Day Saint. He wore many masks, but those who knew him saw the masks slip off time and time again.
His secretary Michelle Avantario witnessed the teenage boys who loitered around the cafeteria at work, waiting on Bowen to show up and take them back to his apartment. She witnessed Bowen’s clumsy attempts to conceal his homosexuality, which continued to manifest in Bowen’s paeans and advances towards male coworker at every advertising agency he worked for over the years. Avantario testified to the fact that Bowen imported boys from Utah to New York City, often promising them financial remuneration for staying with him at his apartment.
She also testified that Bowen had flirted with her boyfriend, telling him that he had hoped the boyfriend would come back to his apartment and rape him. The boys in his Hartsdale neighborhood repaid Bowen’s attentions by breaking into his residence and smearing the walls with feces, much like Bowen’s gay lovers in Salt Lake had repeatedly broken into his home to destroy it during quarrels. To the Salt Lake Police, Bowen’s professions of evil spirits breaking into his home were an obvious attempt to cover up a gay lovers’ spat.
To Bowen’s coworkers, he appeared brilliant as a pitchman, less than competent as a creative, and utterly Machiavellian as an employee and boss. Bowen dispatched his rivals and opposition within the Church of Jesus Christ and Bonneville Communications with ease, first ingratiating himself to the individuals he sought to displace, learning their secrets and weaknesses, and then leveraging his knowledge to remove anyone who might have opposed his vision. Bowen was a man on a mission, one that he saw as emanating directly from God. He was a man chosen by God to serve the Church, to advance its agenda, and to draw people to the covenant.
The inner conflict between Bowen’s desire to be a faithful Latter Day Saint and his sexuality tore him apart mentally, physically, spiritually, psychologically, personally, and professionally. At every stop on his journey, he became known for failing to show up to critical client meetings, for showing up to commercial shoots exhausted to the point of falling asleep on set. Bowen spent his nights pursuing the inner desires that drove him, barely able to maintain himself in professional settings. Those desires were a mixture of sexual and spiritual issues, an amalgamation that proved toxic to Bowen’s reputation and relationships.
He stood before his ward praising his wife Barbara Timothy as a wonderful lover, all the while making thousands of calls to gay escort services and perusing gay pornography on the Internet. His finances were in shambles, as Bowen spent thousands of dollars on his prurient appetites and shopping sprees, struggling to maintain the appearance of a successful advertising executive even as he spent prodigious amounts of money on his vices. He rarely attended Sacrament meetings, but he always invoked his faith, even while pursuing gay male coworkers and subordinates.
Bowen’s pursuit of adult men was noted within the New York advertising community, but his fascination with children would also be noted. The teenage boys he imported from Utah, or the boys he pursued in his neighborhood, or the children of his coworkers and friends were the objects of Bowen’s obsessive affection. He promised one boy he would pay for his dental work if that boy would stay in his apartment with him. He openly solicited the children of his coworkers to stay overnight in his home, even as their parents prepared to leave after dinners and parties.
In order to finance his extravagances and his vices, Bowen reportedly resorted to abusing his expense accounts at his agencies. Even as his reputation plummeted, and the New York advertising community came to view him as emblematic of Mormon hypocrisy, Bowen continued to spend money to maintain the facade of a faithful Latter Day Saint. Michelle Avantario claimed that she had seen a six figure check Bowen had written to the Church after his solicitous letter to a gay coworker became public knowledge. For Gordon Bowen, money and status could overcome any sin he might have committed in the eyes of his Church.
The fact that his reputation rested in large part on work that he had plagiarized from others was of no concern. His dishonest claim that he had graduated from the University of Utah, like the other lies he had told throughout his life, never came back to burn Gordon Bowen. His entire life was a series of lies haphazardly constructed to conceal the inner reality that Bowen was loathe to have exposed. He played his coworkers and associates against each other, giving different stories to various parties, only to be exposed as a liar when those associates inevitably began talking to each other about Bowen’s stories, realizing that he was an inveterate liar.
In order to balance his public persona with his private reality, Bowen would construct an elaborate mythology for himself. His journals contain Bowen’s musings about why he sinned and lied: Heavenly Father had foreordained and predestined him to sin, so that he could learn the secret combinations and codes that were necessary to fulfill his mission within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Gordon Bowen lied to no one as much as he lied to himself. He invoked the language of faith, speaking fluently about prayer and meditation on the things of God even as he pursued sin.
A recurring theme in the lives of Bowen and his associates within the confederation of satanic groups operating under the auspices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is that in order to understand and achieve exaltation, one must have a deep knowledge of both good and evil. In the minds of Gordon Bowen and others like him, Heavenly Father is an individual with deep fluency in both good and evil, and the LDS Church of Satan viewed evil as a concept with its own positive existence. The rest of the world might have viewed evil as the perversion of the good that Heavenly Father established, as is the case when married couples commit adultery or when they use institutions and doctrines established to promote righteousness in order to conceal their wrongdoing. Gordon Bowen and his like-minded accomplices viewed evil as standing apart on its own from good, a monolith to be explored, navigated, and intimately known, even mastered.
These were double-minded men and women, unstable in all of their ways. They were inevitably likely to end up divorced, excommunicated, and disgraced. Their children and grandchildren would inevitably make allegations of horrific abuse with ritualized components. Their former friends would resort to filing affidavits detailing astonishing levels of impropriety, illegality, and sexual misconduct as a means of distancing themselves from their own culpability. The friends of Gordon Bowen who lined up against him in his divorce insisted on the one hand that they had seen signs of his instability and bad character, but they denied ever participating in Bowen’s improprieties even though their associations with him stretched over decades.
Those friends speculated that Bowen might have molested their children, as was the case when Khaliel Kelly intimated that Bowen might have abused her children. Michelle Avantario wrote of Khaliel Kelly’s children calling her in the middle of the night, begging her to come back and stay with them in order to be spared from Gordon Bowen’s services as an overnight babysitter. Incredibly, Avantario acknowledged that she had left the Kelly children with Bowen on another occasion after that incident. Avantario outlined her fear that the police would one day find the bodies of boys buried under Bowen’s home.
Tom and Annie Pratt also told of Bowen’s overtures towards their children, and Annie Pratt wrote of a strange encounter with a “strange, sickly boy” at Bowen’s Salt Lake City home. According to Pratt, she and her mother noticed the boy while waiting for the start of a dinner. The boy told them he was staying with Bowen, and Pratt claimed that she and her mother both drew the conclusion that something wasn’t right. What Pratt and her mother did not do was notify the police or DCFS.
Gordon Bowen was able to navigate the world openly and audaciously due to the silence of his coworkers, friends, and associates, all of whom attested to his inappropriate conduct and unethical behavior during his divorce, even if they had previously done nothing substantial to stop Bowen. Those who knew him had ample reason to step forward in tandems to put a stop to Bowen’s behavior, but they failed to do so. It is unclear why, but Bowen was not discreet about his double life.
Bowen was allegedly found in a gay bar handcuffed to the bar or a stool. Another story had Bowen missing a client meeting and being found by his secretary, handcuffed to a bed or a radiator and smeared with feces. His homosexual imbroglios and flirtations were the stuff of lore in the New York advertising community, with the delicious contradiction of a Mormon advertising executive living a not so closeted life as a gay man providing fodder for Bowen’s colleagues within various advertising agencies and the wider community.
Even when Bowen did show up to Sunday Sacrament meetings, he openly manifested his obvious attraction to young men. Khaliel Kelly told of Bowen’s Stake President confronting him after he witnessed Bowen eyeing young, attractive men before the the services commenced. According to Kelly, Bowen walked around the sanctuary, clearly on the stalk as he leered after the young men in his ward.
During his time in New York, Bowen managed to attract the attention and friendship of another Latter Day Saint whose proclivities were difficult to hide. David Lee Hamblin was working at Cornell Medical Center in White Plains, wrapping up his clinical work to complete his doctorate in psychology. For two years, Hamblin served as the ward seminary teacher, putting him in contact with the teenagers who dutifully filed into their Scarsdale meetinghouse before high school each weekday. During this time, Hamblin’s daughters alleged that he and others within the Scarsdale ward were raping them at the Hamblin residence on 77 Touraine Avenue in Portchester, New York. Hamblin allegedly transported his daughters to his workplace to offer them up to his coworker as well.
Bowen retained Hamblin’s services as a therapist, beginning a relationship that would stretch over two decades. Bowen’s future wife Barbara Timothy attended Hamblin’s healing circles, ingesting peyote and seeking Hamblin’s guidance for her own traumas. Her association with Bowen stretched back to their high school days, and Timothy’s friend Kisi Watkins would accompany none other than David Lee Hamblin to New York City when Bowen locked his stepsons in his apartment with Watkins and Hamblin, who sought to convince Eric and Colin Timothy that their mother was in the wrong for attempting to divorce Gordon. By then, David Lee Hamblin had lost his license to practice psychology for having sex with his own patients. Hamblin was embroiled in a divorce with his wife Roselle Stevenson, and the court would find that Hamblin had sexually abused his eldest two daughters Rachel and Eliza.
For Gordon Bowen, Hamblin’s services were needed to exorcise the two female spirits Bowen believed had made him 90% gay. Bowen sought the assistance of Hamblin, Kisi Watkins, and Mel Fish to rid himself of the spirits he believed possessed him, and he would write in his journals that he had successfully expelled those female spirits, reducing his homosexuality to 10%. Bowen would later complain to his stepsons that the spirits had returned.
Over the course of his association with David Lee Hamblin, Bowen was hired and fired at various advertising agencies. First, Bowen worked at Bonneville Communications, serving as creative director until he was fired for abusing his expense accounts and attempting to mount a coup against his direct supervisor. Second, Bowen was fired from Ogilvy and Mather, where he managed to bring three of his Bonneville coworkers along with him to New York. From there, Bowen worked at McCann Erickson, but he would be let go from both Ogilvy and McCann. He would briefly work at Young & Rubicam, do private work for clients such as American Express, and then transition to Sundance, where he was terminated after a screaming match with founder Robert Redford.
Sundance was founded by Robert Redford in partnership with Sterling van Wagenen, an LDS filmmaker who was related to alleged LDS Church of Satan member Dean van Wagenen. Robert Redford was married to Sterling van Wagenen’s cousin Lola for nearly 27 years.
While working at Sundance, Gordon Bowen allegedly used company computers to access gay pornography and escort sites, and this purportedly resulted in limitations being put on Bowen’s computer access. Undeterred, Bowen simply used his coworker’s computer to access the same sites, resulting in a fracas when that coworker’s child found Bowen’s Internet history while using his father’s computer. It was yet another instance of Bowen’s seeming addiction to hardcore gay pornography spilling over into his personal and professional life. Bowen’s stepsons Eric and Collin both reported that they had found gay pornography on their stepfather’s computers. While his wife Barbara was recovering from in vitro fertilization, Bowen reportedly called gay male escorts while watching his daughter Lily.
Bowen’s excesses became too much for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to overlook, and in 2003, he was excommunicated. He had burned every professional contact over the years, destroying his reputation, when ex-Young & Rubicam coworkers John McGarry and Stewart Owen approached him to form McgarryBowen. It was to be his final career stop. McgarryBowen would become Bowen’s path to ownership rather than employment. It would also generate wealth for Bowen in the millions when Dentsu bought McgarryBowen, with Gordon Bowen receiving between $12 million and $58 million from the buyout.
Those millions would become a source of endless contention between Gordon Bowen and his estranged wife Barbara Timothy. Over the course of their marriage, Bowen had been bailed out by Barbara Timothy’s father when his ex-partners at UPromise had threatened to sue him. For a reported $70,000 settlement paid for by Alma Boyce, UPromise surrendered any further claim to Gordon Bowen’s assets. Bowen repaid his ex-wife’s kindness by forging her name on bank documents to secure a loan to purchase his dream home.
Over the years, Bowen had struggled to pay his bills despite raking in millions. He threw lavish parties, contracting for the services of vendors and caterers, but he was delinquent in paying everyone from the gardeners and landscapers to the caterers. It was not until he secured equity in McGarryBowen that he obtained the kind of financial security that would enable him to stabilize his life. At McGarryBowen, Bowen relied on the services of a company bookkeeper to help him pay down his debts and manage his finances.
During his divorce, those finances were opaque at best. He was a brilliant advertising executive on one hand, generating millions of dollars in revenue with his ability to sell clients on ideas Bowen pilfered from others, but he was unable to to competently manage his own money. He was a faithful and devoted Latter Day Saint, but he was also a homosexual, a pedophile, and an addict when it came to gay male escorts and hardcore gay pornography. He was a high functioning executive who owned equity in a successful advertising agency, but he was also a man who believed female spirits were causing his homosexuality. He wrote of his sins being foreordained in his journal, so that he could learn secret codes and combinations, all as part of a mission he felt he had to serve on the part of God within the Church that had excommunicated him. Bowen was never rebaptized, yet the Church retained his services on marketing matters, and reportedly funded a movie production for $20 million which was delegated to Bowen even though he was an excommunicated and disgraced individual.
When Tim Ballard was pilloried by Vice, sources indicated that Gordon Bowen wrote the press release the Church’s media officers sent to Vice condemning Ballard for his “immoral activities” in utilizing the name of M. Russell Ballard to fundraise. The reality that Gordon Bowen had traded on M. Russell Ballard’s name for years, and the reputation of the Church, was apparently irrelevant to those within the Church who sought to do damage control where Tim Ballard was concerned.
A plausible explanation for Bowen’s contradictions was proffered by Thom Harrison during his divorce. Thom Harrison had provided therapy to Bowen and his estranged wife Barbara Timothy, and the affidavits and testimonials he offered posited that Bowen had a dissociative disorder. Thom Harrison was the subject of the book Visions of Glory, detailing his near death experiences and his allegedly miraculous visitation from Jesus Christ. The book was a sensation within the Latter Day Saint universe, and those who extolled it-such as Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow, and Jodi Hildebrandt-would go on to infamy, resulting in a savage takedown of Harrison by Mormon Stories that drove him into seclusion.
Before he retreated into seclusion, Harrison reportedly spoke to another individual about Gordon Bowen. He allegedly condemned Bowen as a pedophile and Satanist, and claimed that he had told Church officials about Bowen’s proclivities. Harrison also alleged that Bowen had threatened him during Bowen’s divorce proceedings. According to those who know him, Harrison is described as an extremely sensitive individual with a soft demeanor, one who had a profound set of experiences that compelled him to dictate his visions into book form. He would not be the only individual in his immediate circle drawing spiritual insight and inspiration from deeply traumatic experiences.
Harrison had been one of the Church’s original point men on the topic of ritual abuse during the so-called Satanic Panic. He had advised high level LDS officials in their response, and reported his dismay at their unwillingness to accept his recommendations to confront ritual abuse as a valid phenomenon. Some fifty years into his career, Harrison would feel that his reputation and life’s work were in ruins, even as his old nemesis Gordon Bowen retained his position as the Church’s point man in the public takedown of Tim Ballard. This was despite Bowen’s status as an excommunicated and former member.
And forty years after Thom Harrison and others had reportedly advised the Church to confront ritual abuse as a real and valid phenomenon, ritual abuse would burst back into the headlines with the David Lee Hamblin case. An issue that could-and arguably should-have been quashed decades prior was now in full public view again. Ritual abuse was not going away. The Hamblin case implicated dozens of individuals, many holding high level callings within the Church. Worse still, a reported 175 victims and counting came forward in the Utah County Sheriff’s investigation into David Lee Hamblin and his accomplices.
The dividends of the Church’s failure to confront ritual abuse, and to confront the seedy subcultures of private revelation among Latter Day Saints, burst into view in other ways as well with the story of Mormon preppers and apocalyptic survivalists such as Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. These were individuals who were ready to hasten the apocalypse by whatever means necessary, unhinged in their belief that they had received profound private revelations that supplanted and even replaced all earlier revelations. The fruits of their revelation were horrifying: murdered children and family members.
Time and time again, the failure of individuals in high level callings to address and stamp out heresy within the Church had yielded devastating consequences. The Church’s reputation was dented, but more importantly, the faith of the plain and simple individuals who had trusted the Church was in tatters. Victims saw the Church as more concerned with its own image than with rooting out the satanic influence of men like Gordon Bowen and David Lee Hamblin.
At its core, the story of ritual abuse groups is an old and recurring tale. Joseph Smith found it necessary to make it clear to his followers that he alone was the prophet, seer, and revelator after his close associates began to report personal revelations that contradicted Smith’s revelations. Within the groups frequented or established by men like David Lee Hamblin and Gordon Bowen, private personal revelation is not measured according to Scripture or past revelation. God makes it up as He goes along, so to speak, and He is entitled to His inconsistencies. This is how men like David Hamblin and Joe Bennion could reconcile the use of peyote in combination with Native American ritual as Latter Day Saints, and it is how they could justify weaving the mutually exclusive ideology of Native American religion with the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
To those within such groups, earnestness and humility become a narcissistic competition to appear spiritually inspired. In the end, men like David Lee Hamblin do not seek revelation to magnify God; they seek instead to elevate themselves to the heights of those men who came before them. Everyone wants to be a prophet by any means necessary, but the purpose of humility is service to God’s purpose rather than man’s, for the exaltation of God rather than the exaltation of man.
In the Doctrine & Covenants 20:37, humility is required for baptism, the ordinance which marks one’s entry into the faith. Only those who have manifested by their works that they have received the Spirit of Christ shall be received by baptism into His Church. Throughout the Hamblin Victims Statements, David Lee Hamblin performs for his fellow CS members in one setting after another, exalting himself and his ability to induce obedience and compliance with ritual abuse through his techniques, which combine the priesthood power and his knowledge of psychology. Hamblin was selling those techniques for money and in barter arrangements, which is the very definition of priestcraft within the Church.
God’s gifts are not for sale, and those who exalt themselves forfeit any claim to the humility that is an antecedent requirement for entry into the Restored Church, or maturity within the faith. Gordon Bowen made displays of his own purported humility and spiritual concern at dinners and parties for the elite of the Church, but he concurrently and openly indulged in sins that led to his excommunication after thirty plus years of misconduct. Despite the fact that Gordon Bowen was a well known quantity in the Eighties, the Church did not act to address the issues raised by Bowen’s conduct until 2003.
Despite the fact that multiple individuals had reported Bowen to Church authorities over the years, Bowen evaded any real culpability for his sins for three decades. Even after his excommunication for sexual sins, Bowen was retained by the Church to advise it on marketing matters in order to recruit new members. Joe Bennion, Paul Larsen, and David Lee Hamblin, among other active Latter Day Saints, openly and publicly affiliated with Native American religious groups and polygamist groups in Sanpete County, and they espoused the use of peyote as a means of achieving revelation and the release of trauma. Though the Bible said that Christ had come to wipe away all of their tears, the Latter Day Saints who attended sweat lodges and healing circles sought comfort in the ritualized use of peyote under the supervision of James Mooney, an excommunicated Latter Day Saint who professed to be a medicine man.
The fact that Hamblin, Bennion, and others were not disciplined for their public actions and associations is a damning indictment of their local ecclesiastical leadership. The authorities in Salt Lake City had no way of knowing because the local leadership apparently failed to document, report, and discipline those within Hamblin’s CS group for what they were openly doing in their community, and what they were openly recruiting other Latter Day Saints to do in violation of core doctrines.
The question of why local LDS leadership in Provo and Spring City failed to interdict and investigate is still unanswered, and will remain so until the Church leadership demands a full accounting of how openly apostasy could thrive and flourish over at least five separate decades within the Hamblin group.
As it pertained to Gordon Bowen, the highest levels of leadership within the LDS were warned. M. Russell Ballard’s secretary received a warning that Bowen was a pedophile, and her response was succinct: “We’re keeping an eye on him.” Ballard allegedly told at least two people that Bowen had deceived the entire brotherhood, but he failed to sever his association with Bowen. Multiple sources indicate that Ballard regarded Bowen as a sort of prodigal son, an indulgent view that enabled Gordon Bowen to tarnish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints time and time again with his association, while rehabilitating himself in the eyes of the extended communities in which he worked. Gordon Bowen was not treated like an excommunicated or former member of the Church; members of the Quorum of the Twelve repeatedly and openly visited Bowen’s personal residence and reportedly continue to visit Bowen in his home.
Gordon Bowen has not repented because he has no incentive to repent. The consequences for Gordon Bowen were limited to a 2003 excommunication; in the present day, Bowen enjoys a close working relationship with the current Church leadership that is inexplicable to those who have watched the ongoing patronage of Bowen by Church leaders over the years. The life and lie of Gordon Bowen carried on unimpeded by the public exposure of his sexual immorality and alleged child abuse, or the professional violations committed by Bowen over the years.
Inexplicably, Gordon Bowen managed to evade criminal culpability for forging his wife’s name on a loan document even though he admitted to doing so in a deposition. Bowen managed to evade criminal investigation or culpability for reportedly importing boys from Salt Lake City to New York City to live with him in his apartment, which is the definition of trafficking. He openly solicited gay men in his advertising agencies, he sexually assaulted coworkers and associates, and he allegedly digitally sodomized his own daughter.
In 2012, when the Hamblin sisters made horrifying allegations against Bowen that extended to homicide and rape, the record does not indicate that the Provo Police Department even interviewed Gordon Bowen about the allegations. The Provo Police did not look into Bowen’s divorce record, which was publicly available in archives that anyone could access. If they had done so, they would have discovered pages of corroborating allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, the trafficking of minors, and the suspicion of multiple parents within Bowen’s peer group that he had molested their children. They would have uncovered the fear of Bowen’s former secretary Michelle Avantario, who wrote that she believed the police would one day find the bodies of boys under Bowen’s home.
The police would also have uncovered the testimony of landscapers and the teenage friends of Bowen’s stepsons, who detailed Bowen’s propensity for watching them and making lurid sexual remarks to them. Law enforcement would have found reams of circumstantial evidence and testimony from dozens of individuals as to their suspicion that Gordon Bowen was involved in the abuse of children, and possibly capable of murdering children. They would have found financial crimes that they could have used as leverage to compel Bowen to talk about his alleged activities with regards to David Lee Hamblin.
It should strain the credulity of the credulous that the police did not follow up on the allegations made by the Hamblin sisters. There is nothing in the records released by the Provo Police Department that indicates that the police believed the Hamblin sisters to be lying between 2012 and 2014. The record is bereft of a single instance of the police uncovering falsehood or deceit on the part of Rachel, Eliza, or Katherine Hamblin.
Gordon Bowen remains free to live the life of lies he has built, free to trade in on his ongoing association with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an association which legitimates him to anyone who is unaware of the allegations against him in his divorce, or in the Hamblin case. The ongoing association that Bowen enjoys with the highest leaders of the Church that excommunicated him would not evince to observers that he is excommunicated; on the contrary, such an association would indicate to anyone who did not know better that Gordon Bowen is a member in good standing of the Church that excommunicated him 2003.
Those relationships have proven beneficial to Gordon Bowen, who was on the cusp of inserting himself into the nonprofit board that oversees the production of the hit series The Chosen. On at least two separate occasions, sources indicate that an executive within the two companies that distribute and produce The Chosen attempted to bring Gordon Bowen into the nonprofit overseeing The Chosen. If others had not been aware of Gordon Bowen’s unsavory past and reputation, an alleged pedophile and Satanist would have been on the board of the nonprofit overseeing the most prominent television series representing Jesus Christ to the public.
There is no need to conflate the failure of local officials or even the highest levels of the Church with God as it pertains to Gordon Bowen. The abdication of responsibility in ensuring that Gordon Bowen is severed from association with the Restored Church is an indictment of men, not of Heavenly Father. For those of us who believe in the covenant, the objective of our work is simple: compelling those invested with the highest responsibility in our faith to exercise that responsibility with regards to open and obvious apostates. Gordon Bowen can be free to live his lie, but he cannot be allowed to live it within an ongoing association with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
IRA has written an executive summary that is being circulated within the Church leadership with the goal of severing Gordon Bowen and another individual from the benefits of association with the Church. Apostasy has no place alongside righteousness.
I wish there was only 1 other individual...😔
It’s my feeling that there are a few men who have worked for decades to keep Gordon Bowen’s evil doings a secret.
Again, thank you 🙏 thank you to Go El for all of your hard work!
GoEl was kind enough to come on my pod tonight to talk about this article!
https://jennyhatch.substack.com/p/interview-with-go-el-at-investigations