After being raped at 15. I felt like I was in the deepest darkest hell you can imagine. I talked to my bishop who said “why were you out with a boy before you are 16?!” “Are you sure you weren’t tempting him”, “where you keeping the modesty standard when he saw you?!”. I asked if I would be forgiven for this and he said that any sin is forgivable even the ones committed my by rapist and that he could be washed clean of his sins. I can’t explain the anger I have writing this. I spent years of my life feeling guilt for being abused. You have no right.
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