A leper colony is a place used to quarantine people with leprosy. These colonies were established as a safeguard in hopes of offering protection for the "clean". Even the slightest suspicion of leprosy such as a rash, a rub, or a burn, societies would banish citizens into these colonies. This was a life sentence where a slow and painful death was inevitable. Most often people banished to the colonies didn't even have leprosy, but eventually that is where they contracted the disease.
Are we so quick as to put others in leper colonies? From the first signs of sin do we cast people away? Do we throw them in until they eventually believe that is what they are? If so, we are the ones handing out the death sentences.
I don't care what you have done in your life. I don't care what they have done in their life! Don't put people in a leper colonies, not even yourself. There is nothing on this earth and in the eternities beyond that Jesus Christ hasn't paid for.
If you truly repent you are forgiven. Through the Atonement there is no such thing as a second-class citizen.
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