#40 Name Hidden. CS: 1
I have a few but the one that was directed towards me was when it was my birthday interview. The bishop asked basic questions like how’s school, how family, anything…
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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.
#41 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,8
My duration at the Provo MTC was from September through November of 2008. Each and every day there were lessons, videos, talks, activities, and speakers which all focused on personal…
#42 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Very strained marriage. My children & I have left the church.
When my oldest son was approaching his 12th birthday, he came to me and told me he didn’t want to be interviewed by the bishop without me, his mom, in…
#43 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,8
I began masturbating around 10 years old. The guilt started around that time. As my 12th birthday got closer and I started thinking about my interviews to become a deacon,…
#44 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7. Other: Nightmares, shame, rejection
This is the story of my two children. One MIA night, my son, 17 and my daughter 14, were called into the bishop’s office separately. This couldn’t have been a…
#45 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3
I always had to report to my bishop growing up if/how often I masturbated or looked at porn. It was always degrading, and left me with a ton of guilt.…
#46 Dave S. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10
I’ve lived with decades of shame, guilt and anxiety due to dozens of private worthiness meetings with LDS leaders when I was as young as eleven years old. The questions…
#47 Name Hidden. CS: 1
When I was in high school, we had a bishop who was also one of our high school teachers in my small home town. When this bishop would bring me…
#48 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7. Other: Prolonged medical issues
So in light of the current trend, here is one of my stories. This is not necessarily a story of abuse per se, but of my paranoia to be worthy…
#49 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,5,6,7. Other: Intentional Self Harm
I first experienced orgasm as an 8 year old girl, at the hands of a teacher. I didn’t understand the sensation I had felt nor had I wanted it. It…
#50 Katie J. CS: 1,2,3
I was not asked inappropriate questions by bishops/counselors, but I still suffered incredible guilt and self-loathing because of the general process of worthiness interviews. I was terrified by the prospect…
#51 Carianne W. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
I am a girl and I remember as early as 4 or 5 years old casually feeling slight sexual feelings that were immediately followed by shame and guilt. I was…
#52 Ryan W. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
Bishop’s interviews are so damaging to young people. And adults. The damage I suffered because of these interviews and the teaching that masturbation is a sin, has been severe and…
#53 Amy Hall. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Other: Sexual abuse by the bishop
Trigger Warning * Sexual assault involving a bishop* **If you are a survivor of molest, be very cautious about being triggered reading my story!!!** * Sam Young, THANK YOU for…
#54 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,8. Other: Obligation to be straight married despite being gay
I’m gay. I thought if I was the perfect Mormon boy, God would cure me of my gayness because obviously this is sinful. When I found out as a teenager…
#55 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7
Just like many other young women in the church, I was specifically taught from a young age that my worth was dependent on my purity. Young women are taught that…
#56 Melissa D. CS: 1,2,3
When I was about 12 years old I went to my first combined region wide fireside which was something I was very excited to be a part of. At this…
#57 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4. Other: Lying in order to coerce me into allowing my children to be interviewed alone with the bishop without me present.
When my son turned 8 the bishop interviewed me to make sure I was worthy to baptize and confirm him. He also wanted to interview my son alone to make…
#58 Name Hidden. CS: 7
I just recently learned of this interview. My son sustained a broken back that took nearly a year to heal. He often missed church. You could not meet a kinder…
#59 Brian M. CS: 1,3
I was a good kid. Didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, over 4.0 GPA, seminary president (out of Utah, had to wake up at 4:30 every morning.) My only “problem” was I…