#694 Arthur N. CS: 1,2,3,7
I grew up in the LDS Church, was baptized at 8, ordained a deacon at 12, teacher at 14, priest at 16, elder at 18, served a two-year mission starting…
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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.
#695 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
I hated being interviewed by my Branch President. If I had it to do over again, I would never be a teenage girl alone with an older man. At the…
#696 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6
Technically, this meeting with my bishop did not happen when I was a child, but it still happened when I was young. When I went to college and decided I…
#697 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7
When I was a young teenager, I had a bishop ask me if I masturbated. I wasn’t even sure what that meant. I don’t completely remember how I responded. I…
#698 Joseph R. CS: 1,2,3,6
I don’t pretend that my story is as bad as many others however it may be more common. The worst part about my story is that it wasn’t my bishop…
#699 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4,5,7
My first two and a half years after I when to collage about four people saw the inside of my apartment. I could barely tolerate having anyone in my apartment…
#700 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7,8
I had previously dated the son of the bishop of our neighboring ward. We were sexually active, I had a lot of guilt and tried repenting and met with the…
#701 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7. Other: Embarrassment, pain and distorted view of sexuality.
When I joined the church as a teenager, a week later the Bishop met with me and conducted a worthiness interview that asked a long series of inappropriate questions using…
#702 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Long story short; When I was 11, I was molested. At 15 I was raped. I told the bishop and he told me I was going to hell and it…
#703 Kim L. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8. Other: Self Harming, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anxiety, Future Sexual Harassment, Future Physical Abuse
I was abused by the boys in my neighborhood when I was 4-6 years old. I didn’t understand it at the time. But I was coerced and sometimes physically forced…
#704 Kim. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8
From a young age I have felt a disconnect from church. I moved to a new ward when I was 6. Due to marriages connecting families or families living close…
#705 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7,8
I had just turned 12 and was incredibly excited to finally get the chance to go to the temple with all of my friends. They were all older than me,…
#706 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,7,8,9
When I was 15, I became involved with a girl in my class. I already felt shame from this, as the church instructs kids to wait until age 16 to…
#707 Natalie. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
When I was 18 years old I confessed to my bishop that my boyfriend and I had been having sex. It was terrifying to be a teenage girl, fresh out…
#708 Name Withheld. CS: 5
My brother, recently served as a bishop, never fully disclosed the extent of how he showed himself to me completely nude and erect in his bedroom while I was 12…
#709 Name Withheld. CS: 1,3. Other: exacerbated OCD
I have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It started when I was a teenager, originally manifesting behaviorally as excessive confessing of sins to my bishop. I was a textbook case of a…
#710 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
My 17 year old daughter has been sexually active for a bit. Her mom and I knew about it and mostly talked about safe sex. Daughter felt she needed to…
#711 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6,7,8. Other: Limited capability to feel love. Deep rooted belief I am not worthy of love. Unable to believe Christ could forgive me. Works, no grace.
My story happened not because of a Bishop with inappropriate intentions, but because the several men I dealt with were trying their best with very little guidance and only very…
#712 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,5,7
I was roughly six or seven when I was molested by an older cousin during a family vacation. (Everyone was Mormon, and all the men mentioned below are Melchizedek priesthood…
#713 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,4,7,9
I was 12 years old and recently found out that something I had been doing for years was called masturbation. My bishop happened to be my uncle, and I had…