Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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My story 🤍 How I escaped the mental indoctrination & "cult" of the Mormon church.

Resources for victims of religious trauma: takingbackourselves.org/resources-for-religious-abuse

Resources for LGBT+ Mormons: mormonspectrum.org/lgbt-resources

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Growing Up Gay & Mormon w/ @alyssadgrenfell youtube.com/watch?v=-LW4dLNbeEU

Exposing Toxic Beauty Standards in the Mormon Church w/ @alyssadgrenfell youtube.com/watch?v=SoERFJ8fMVU

@alyssadgrenfell Joseph Smith Series: youtube.com/watch?v=CWDt3-Rovlw

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00:00 Intro
02:34 Disclaimer
03:20 Childhood
08:53 Baptism
13:00 Discovering I Was Gay
14:35 The Book Of Mormon
16:37 Mormon Teachings
19:52 My "Testimony"
21:59 Bishops
24:20 The Temple
27:48 Missionary Work
30:31 Grappling With My Spirituality
35:19 BYU
39:41 Leaving the Church
41:44 How is the Church a Cult?
43:43 Authoritarian Structure
46:02 Isolation
47:31 Control
48:25 Charismatic Leader
49:24 Beliefs
50:23 Shunning of Leavers
52:34 My Stance on Mormonism
53:04 My Beliefs Now
55:28 Outro