#613 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9
First off, thank you…thank you! Years of shame, guilt, self loathing and gender confusion because of what I endured. When it first began….I was called into the bishop’s office out…
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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.
#614 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6
I was 10 the first time my parents made me go confess masturbation to the bishop. Ten years old! They told me that sexual sin was 2nd only to murder,…
#615 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,8,9
I was 14 and in an interview with the bishop, a trusted neighbor from up the street, when I first felt violated. I watched his eyes shift from my face…
#616 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
I was 13 years old when a boy told me that his bishop had told him to “not associate with someone like me” . My neighbor who was my age…
#617 Name Hidden CS: 1,3
When I was 18 and a student at BYU, I was dating an older man that was in my ward. I was not sexually knowledgeable due to my upbringing. The…
#618 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10
There’s nothing quite like trying to be the best child of God you can be – praying fervently, loving scripture study, always lending a hand to fellow brothers and sisters…
#619 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4,5
Me and my girlfriend at the time, started to experiment with each other and use to touch each others private parts. This went on for a few months. The guilt…
#620 Name Hidden. CS 1,2,3,6
I’ve slept on this, and woken up just livid about it, because I’ve had to relive it through discussions with people who won’t listen to victims. I’m livid at the…
#621 Jessalynn S. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9
The other day, I found myself reading through the journal entries I’d written both before and after I was formally disfellowshipped from the Church. I was disfellowshipped when I was…
#622 Katharine M. CS: 1,3,4,5,7,8,9
I. I was born into an LDS family. Throughout my childhood and youth, my father served in major positions of leadership, respect and trust, including bishop, stake high councilman, branch…
#623 Name Withheld. CS 1,2,3,4,7,8
I began masturbating without knowing what it was. When I realized I felt afraid and guilty, feeling I’d done the worst thing save murder. A few months later, at age…
#624 Name Withheld. CS: 1,4,8,9
I write this as more an appeal to all church leaders. I see a gross injustice done to teenagers and adults as bishops and stake president ask questions regarding masturbation.…
#625 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2
I went in for an interview to be allowed to go to the temple to be baptized for the dead when I was 12 years old. I was a shy…
#626 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3
After high school, I moved out from my lovely LDS home in Texas to pursue an education at BYU in Provo, Utah at 18 years old. I grew up in…
#627 Georgia S. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
My husband is a retired police officer. There have been many times when he was investigating child abuse cases where bishops and other church leaders would not cooperate with the…
#628 Christine W. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
I remember hitting myself at night when I came home from church in my early teens as I just couldn’t stay away from masturbation. I stopped for a year while…
#629 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Loss of faith
When I was 8 years old and receiving my worthiness interview for baptism, I remember feeling uncomfortable. I didn’t know my bishop well beyond singing songs to him in sacrament…
#630 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3. Other: Victim Blaming
During my interviews to be baptized, I was shamed for having been raped. Sorry to tell you, Bishop, it wasn’t my fault and there was nothing I could do to…
#631 Katie L. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD
A deeply inappropriate worthiness interview when I was 12 or 13 years old traumatized me when a bishop went through the “For the Strength of Youth” pamphlet and asked me…
#632 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,8
When I was 19 years old, my boyfriend (at the time) and I ended up having intercourse. My boyfriend was overcome with guilt and called the bishop for us to…