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Scary how people try to convince the victims that abuse is ok.
 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/02/08/the-mormon-church-was-complicit-in-rob-porters-alleged-abuse/#fRR0mh5AsrE35wPO.99
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‘It was scary but it wasn’t like it was life-threatening. For years, I would go to Mormon bishops and I would try to find the words to explain what was going on but I was at a loss beyond the explanation that he got physical with me.’

The violence escalated to where Porter was choking his wife.

‘It was not hard enough for me to pass out but it was scary, humiliating and dehumanizing,’ she said.

‘It wasn’t until I went to a secular counsellor at my work place one summer and told him what was going on that he was the first person, and not a male religious leader, who told me that what was happening was not okay.’

Porter was a Mormon who spent two years on his missionary trip. He met Holderness (nee Paulson), who was also a Mormon, after he returned. She naturally spoke with bishops about her relationship, but it’s clear they wanted her to stick with her husband no matter how abusive he was. Divorce wasn’t an option.

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