I was a recently baptized teenage convert, unfamiliar with the ways of the church. Invited to a Thursday youth activity night at my ward building, I was asked to meet with a man in the building I didn’t know. I would find out the man I was meeting with served on my stake’s high council.…
My story starts outside of bishops interviews. When I was in preschool on a play date, I was raped by two boys a few years older than me while their grandfather watched. They threw me on a bunk bed, covered my face with a pillow, and removed the bottom half of my clothes. I had…
This is a story about one of my children whose life was impacted in a huge way due to explicit sexual worthiness questions by clergy. Growing up in the church, the gospel was a large part of his identity and self-worth. All of that changed upon turning 17 years old and being disciplined by the…
Last Sunday I could not raise my hand to sustain any callings. I have two reasons that I could not raise my hand. One reason is the stories on your Facebook, website, blog and listening to your journey on Mormon Stories. The second reason is what I have gone through in the last couple of…
Starting at a very young age, I dealt with many family issues and depression which soon led me at a young age to seek love and approval from boys. At the age of 13, I participated in sexual activity but not actual intercourse. My father was actually the bishop at the time when my parents…
I went through years of interviews. They were completely inappropriate. The last time i sat through an interview was when i was attending BYU and it was humiliating. I never returned to church after that. Having an adult male question young females about their sex lives is beyond sickening. It is perverted. That is what…
All my life I had been taught about remaining non-sexually active until after marriage, and only then, I was only allowed to have intercourse with my wife. I saw this as reasonable, and even as a 20 year old man (back then) I was willing to “follow the Lord’s teachings”. When I was 21 years…
When I first went to get my bishop interview for the Temple Recommend, I was asked the usual questions such as, “Do you believe in the Church and it’s teachings?”, and other questions of similar points, but suddenly, my Bishop had asked me a very uncomfortable question. He had asked me “Do you watch pornography,…
I had never even heard of masturbation before my bishop asked me if I was doing it. I said I didn’t know what that was. He then explained to me what it was. I was 12. It was honestly kind of traumatizing. At the very least it’s one of my worst childhood memories, and it…
I was eleven years old. I had been called in for a pre-YW/Primary graduation interview. Towards the end of the interview, the bishopric member asked me if I obeyed the law of chastity. When I responded in the affirmative, he asked if I knew what it meant. I responded in an age-appropriate way, something along…