Posted on 11/19/2023 8:10:33 AM PST by Morgana
Mormon leaders are 'covering up' an 'epidemic' of sexual abuse that rivals scandals exposed within the Catholic church, victims have alleged to DailyMail.com.
The Utah-based religion has repeatedly protected perpetrators and punished those who speak out in a bid to protect its reputation 'at all costs', it is claimed.
Victims believe abuse is 'rampant', with Mormon families said to be suffering 'extremely high rates of incest'.
Young girls subjected to horrific abuse say they are told to 'forgive' their assailants and discouraged from reporting it to the police.
The Mormon church has been embroiled in several high profile cases in which it has been accused of covering up sexual abuse, but the true scale of the crisis has never before been exposed.
Now, DailyMail.com has combed through reams of court documents and police records and interviewed more than a dozen current and former members of the church to expose the full extent of victims' claims.
Their stories span decades of abuse in which ecclesiastical leaders are alleged to have 'maintained a pattern and practice' of hiding crimes from authorities.
It comes after a court in Arizona earlier this month ruled that church officials who knew that a member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police because the information was received during a spiritual confession.
Victims who spoke to DailyMail.com said this was repeatedly used as an excuse for bishops to hide abuse from authorities, often allowing it to carry on for years.
Women claimed church culture acts as a breeding ground for abuse, pointing to the belief within Mormonism that local bishops - laymen with no pastoral training - are divinely called by God and led by spiritual revelations, meaning their authority cannot be questioned.
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Hey! Mormonism is a great American-made cult!
Of course it is I have been in the rooms with drunk and crazy folks all issues from money to sex, drugs and booze.
The LDS Church has its issues just like all religious denominations, education, law enforcement and the military.
I have seen them all including ‘recovering politicians’ like myself.
Avoid any pride or vanity in this matter humility inventory of one’s own past all aspects even sexual ones are in order for you, me and all others.
Doesn’t the Good Book say:
“ALL HAVE SINNED”
I have lusted after Mormon women but that doggone funny underwear has gotten in the way of my insanity provided a physical and dare I say spiritual barrier to my sin.
I used to cut on the Mormons but I don’t do that anymore.
I need to cut on myself do my own inventory of “sin” first and foremost.
Mormonism started as a typical cult based on sex, power, and wealth for its promiscuous sex-hungry leader so it isn’t surprising that its sex-based core will always be a problem for it and with a fundamental part of the cult being the availability of females, age lines and incest lines will always be especially hard to maintain in that cult.
Now that marriage has become basically whatever consenting adults want it to be, in time we will probably see new prophet revelations returning open polygamy to the Mormon religion.
It was a system tailor made for such things. it was a unwelcome byproduct that happens in similar systems.
Q: Why did the Mormons settle in Utah?
click and drag over the answer.
A: Because the Donners wouldn't eat them.***
Sighhhhh ... if only Mormon leaders were allowed to marry ...
when your “throuple” is threatened by a “quadrouple” and “quintouple” THEN you can worry. oh what’s the use. never mind.
I thought “the more the merrier” was the rule. I’ve been misled.
“”” including ârecovering politiciansâ like myself.”””
What level of politician were you?
Thank goodness Christians don’t have these problems.
Never expected that, LOL.
“Religious Right” Pro-Life constant campaigner, campaign manager, adviser to local politicians.
I ran and lost four elections to the GOP Establishment in the “Pre-MAGA” Era here in Pennsylvania.
I was big enough to be an endorser of Republican candidates for public office around here my signature would appear on campaign flyers supporting other candidates.
I kept a high profile voiced commercials for political campaigns.
Certainly as a catholic the sex abuse outraged me. Including one accusation against the parish priest from my wedding. But us Catholics have said all along that despite what the media tells you we werenât the only ones. Sadly, we were right.
Most of us would describe that as being involved in politics, or being politically active, or being a political activist, we generally think of politicians as having held office.
Always a good starting point...
Thatâs right.
“The LDS Church has its issues just like all religious denominations, education, law enforcement and the military... Doesnât the Good Book say: ‘ALL HAVE SINNED’”
The Mormon Church was founded by a sexual deviant/predator. It’s ALWAYS had this problem.
The “good book” also says that sin will be punished:
Revelation 22:12 NKJV
And behold, I [Jesus] am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
Romans 2:2-11 NKJV
But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who âwill render to each one according to his deedsâ: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousnessâindignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
So not a "politician" in the sense of "ever held elected office?"
Regards,
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