Dread, shame and guilt at every annual worthiness interview from my teenage years beginning in the early 1980s into adulthood for masturbation. The interview didn’t even need to be particularly invasive because the Mormon socialization which shames this behavior is so predominate, the mere interview itself brings the heavy weight of that social condemnation to bear from one misguided adult onto an innocent minor. I would rather destroy the church and its general and local leaders than allow my children to suffer as I and others have. I signed the petition, and I will sue the church into the stone age and every other measure to protect my children from this evil.
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