https://askgramps.org/how-does-mormon-church-view-victims-rape-incest-and-sexual/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://askgramps.org/how-does-mormon-church-view-victims-rape-incest-and-sexual/#comment-35276 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:20:00 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/how-does-the-mormon-church-view-victims-of-rape-incest-and-sexual-abuse/#comment-35276 Blaming rape victims is the kind of sick crap they believe in the hog wallows in the middle east.
It should stay there

]]> https://askgramps.org/how-does-mormon-church-view-victims-rape-incest-and-sexual/#comment-33717 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/how-does-the-mormon-church-view-victims-of-rape-incest-and-sexual-abuse/#comment-33717 I had a seminary teacher who said “I would rather see you die than to lose your virginity.” I am a survivor or sexual abuse from a friends of friends. It happened just after I was baptized so I saw myself as “accountable.” I did not even know the “facts” of life and was not physically mature. I was outnumbered and my abusers were bigger than me so I did not fight. My seminary teacher talked about morality and this was very difficult for me to hear. Ten years later I had the opportunity to do baptisms for the dead but I turned it down because I considered myself unworthy because of the event. Eventually I discussed it with a bishop who told me he was sure the Lord had forgiven me and not to dwell on it. I wonder how many others in my seminary class have had secret experiences like this.

]]> https://askgramps.org/how-does-mormon-church-view-victims-rape-incest-and-sexual/#comment-33369 Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:51:00 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/how-does-the-mormon-church-view-victims-of-rape-incest-and-sexual-abuse/#comment-33369 I would be speaking to the stake about that seminary teacher! That is inappropriate!

]]> https://askgramps.org/how-does-mormon-church-view-victims-rape-incest-and-sexual/#comment-69 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:42:07 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/how-does-the-mormon-church-view-victims-of-rape-incest-and-sexual-abuse/#comment-69 Anyone who’s been the victim of such terrible crimes is INNOCENT of any wrongdoing. It is the person who committed the assault who has sinned. The victim is still innocent and PURE in the eyes of God, and they absolutely deserve our respect, understanding, and compassion. Our society is very twisted if anyone thinks the victim “asked for it,” and I personally would be glad to teach such an unkind person a lesson they would never forget. It is time the doer of the crime was held entirely accountable and NOT his victim.

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