During my developmental years as a teen I often struggled with depression. I was weighed down with guilt and tore myself apart with self-loathing. I was conflicted, frustrated, embarrassed, confused, and suffering. My source of pain was due to my personal sexual sins. These minuscule sins included very infrequently masturbating (never to completion) and sometimes looking at women in bikinis (the most mild of “porn”). When I confessed to my bishop, the questions were pressing and detailed and in depth. I was told not to partake of the sacrament because my sins were so serious. I left that interview more ashamed and broken then before. Explicit sexual interview questioning is harmful child harassment. Freedom of religion protects this loophole of illegal crime.
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