#311 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7
When I was 16, I started dating a boy in my ward. I fell hard and fast, and really believed I was in love with him. 3 months into our…
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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):
- Inappropriate shame and guilt
- Childhood self-loathing
- Adulthood self-loathing
- Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
- Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
- Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
- Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
- Suicide Ideation
- Attempted Suicide
- Suicide of a loved one or friend.
#312 Benjamin. CS: 1,4
When I was a teen, I attended EFY (Especially For Youth) church camps, which are commonly attended by Mormon kids hosted on church-owned university campuses. One year, when I was…
#313 Name Hidden. CS: Other: I feel like my issues are not directly related to the sexual aspect of worthiness interviews, so I didn’t check anything in this list.
I remember the first time I was asked if I masturbated. When I was about 15 years old, I was very depressed. My bishop was a neighbor and family friend,…
#314 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,6
My sister was asked by her bishop if she masturbated before she was old enough to know what the word meant. Her husband (who is not LDS) has been so…
#315 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,5,6,7,9,10
My story began growing up not only being molested by an older neighbor, but also in a house full of siblings who had all learned throughout their childhood how to…
#316 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6
Whenever I was in a romantic relationship in high school and college, I dreaded worthiness interviews. I hated being asked by the bishop if I was worthy and feeling compelled…
#317 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,5,7
It was the late 80’s and I was about 4 years old. My mom was driving with only me in the car and I recognized that we were near the…
#318 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,7
I had recently moved out of state to attend college when I was caught up in a sexual situation with a man in my dorm room. I performed oral sex…
#319 Lisa O. CS: 1,2,4,6,7
Lisa O. Idaho, USA My story takes place in the 1980s, in a town of about 30,000 people in Los Angeles County, California. One Sunday when I was about 15…
#320 Cheryl N. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7
You may use my name, I resigned from the Church a couple years ago and I am not afraid of the Church discipline or threats anymore. ” A current active…
#321 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7,8,9
Innocence Taken I grew up going to the Sugar Land wards of the Houston Texas South Stake. I was going in for my first temple interview to do baptisms for…
#322 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,6,7,8
My nazi-TBM parents never gave me the birds and the bees talk. I was raised in an information vacuum that only included the church and nothing else. I knew nothing…
#323 Sally T. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: mis-information, or perhaps a blatant lie used to coerce???
I went through those highly emotional and impactive teen years, in the 70s. This was when our LGBTQ brothers and sisters were still in the closet. A time when much…
#324 Name Hidden. CS: 1. Other: Sexual Harassment
The following isn’t an experience about a Bishop interview, but an Honor Code Office interview on the BYU-I campus. This is an LDS owned private university. These meetings should be…
#325 Craig S. CS: Other: Bishop falls in love
This is an odd story but it took me a while to connect the dots as to why I felt so passionate about signing the petition and wanting to march.…
#326 Ashley B. CS: 1,3,8
I became pregnant as a teen. The father is LDS and made great efforts to not be involved. He sent church members to my home to harass me into giving…
#327 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
When I was a 12 year old I went to my father full of shame and confessed I had masturbated. His reaction led me down a path of intense self-loathing…
#328 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4,6
As a child, I wish I had known about the grooming processes that sexual predators use. The way they gain a child’s trust, maybe even their parents’ trust, before attempting…
#329 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8,9
I should start with a little bit of history before going into detail about what happened to me between my years as a young child through to adulthood. I was…
#330 Kik G. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
On many more than one occasion, I was subjected to inappropriate interviewing that effected me even into my adulthood. From around the age of 12 to about age 19, I…