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NOTE: It's a interesting to note that Blogger.com will no longer allow me to post a full title for my new blog posts. When I try to add anything other than a single word, the title turns to gibberish. I wonder what that's all about??????
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Since I posted my prior blog post about my experiences with the Mormon Temple and my concerns about Mitt Romney's suitability as our President, I received quite a few HATE MAIL posts and emails from MORMONS.

My response to the Mormon Hate Mail:

I am willing to share some more details of my experience as a Mormon with you since so many of you either called me names, attacked the veracity of my statements or you attacked my motives for my posts.

I was married in the Washington, DC Mormon temple to a gentleman who had performed a two-year mission to Japan. Prior to our marriage I had voiced my concern about how physically rough he was with me at times. I had discussions about it with my future husband, my own parents and my future father-in-law. My future father-in-law told me that once his son had his physical desires fulfilled on our wedding night he was sure he would be more gentle with me.

Unfortunately the wedding night didn't take care of the problem. In fact, that was the first night I was physically and sexually abused by my husband. I tried to stay married to him, but when I left him a year later I weighed 99lbs, was covered with black and blue bruises and was bleeding internally with severe ulcerative colitis.

I am infertile and my husband felt that to prove that we were good Mormons I must get pregnant quickly. He would grab me randomly and force me down on the bed and make me have sex with him several times a day. There were many days when I could barely walk from the pain. He would physically/sexually hurt me during these times until I cried and he would laugh as I cried.

Almost a year to the day after our marriage, my parents had just flown to Utah from back east because I was graduating from BYU. While I sat at breakfast with them one morning it was as if a light bulb came on. I looked at my husband beside me and then
I looked at my parents and I got up and said, "get him away from me" and I walked out of the restaurant. My parents had seen the bruises before and had encouraged me to leave him several times before, but I had said that I took my marriage vows very seriously and I was going to stay and work on my marriage. At this moment I was able to see that I needed to go - just so I could become healthy and safe once again.

Thankfully a wonderful Mormon male attorney defended me in the divorce proceedings. I was allowed to leave Utah immediately when I filed for divorce because I was so ill. My parents stayed with me until I was stable enough to leave.

My attorney represented me at the divorce proceeding. The divorce proceeding was held three months after I left Utah. During the cross-examination of my husband, my husband broke down and admitted that he watched his father beat his mother and his grandfather beat his grandmother when he was a child. He broke down on the stand and wept.

I was granted an immediate divorce that day.

Unfortunately I wasn't the only woman in our church/ward in Provo, Utah who was being abused. There were lots of black eyes and other injuries that I observed on other ladies within the church. I experienced it and I knew other women who experienced it.

There is a new movie that has just been released called, "Happy Valley." It exposes the many challenges faced by Mormons - especially drug use. You can read about the movie at this link: http://www.happyvalleythemovie.com

I lived in Utah. I experienced and witnessed the physical abuse and drug abuse that is a result of the continued brainwashing of members and the suppression of women and children.

Here's a recent quote from the Salt Lake Tribune - a prominent Salt Lake City newspaper, "...Utah leads the nation in the illegal use of prescription drugs. A recent federal study determined that 6.5 percent of Utahns age 12 or older used a prescription pain medication without a doctor's order in the past year." Salt Lake Tribune - 08/04/2007

I have to ask - If life in Utah is so idyllic then why is it leading the country in illegal use of prescription drugs.

In a Los Angeles Times article, published February 20, 2002, entitled "Study Finds Utah Leads Nation in Antidepressant Use," the caption reads: "Some point to the pressures of Mormonism, especially for women, to explain the surprising findings." Link to this article: http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon64.html

So no, I'm not alone in my experiences and my concerns. I am just taking a stand while I watch a Mormon Male run for the office of President - to question his practices within the religion and to question how they may potentially affect his behavior and judgment if he were to be elected to the Presidency of the United States.

MITT

Isn't it interesting that Mitt Romney says he is TOTALLY AGAINST POLYGAMY - yet he lives his life looking forward to an afterlife where he'll be a SUPER POLYGAMIST with his own planet and his own Goddess Wives.

Mormon men are taught that after death (and if they are righteous) they will live forever as GODS over THEIR OWN PLANET - having unlimited sexual relations with MULTIPLE GODDESS WIVES so as to populate their own planet.

How can Mitt Romney say he is against something he believes is one of the greatest rewards in the afterlife. DO YOU really want a PRESIDENT who disavows something in his earthly life that he covets and aspires to in the afterlife?

Are you aware that Mitt Romney has performed death oath rituals hundreds of times in which he has drawn his thumb across his throat from side to side as if he were slitting his own throat and another where he has drawn his thumb across his abdomen as if he were disemboweling himself?

I am a former Mormon. I graduated from BYU. I was married in the Wash, DC temple.

I vehemently believe in freedom of religion. However, I am concerned that someone who professes questionable beliefs and who has participated in cult-like rituals involving grisly death-oath might become our President.

This information is not widely available to the general public. Mormons profess - what goes on in the temple is "sacred, not secret." Well if they are so sacred and "not secret" then why was I asked to make death oaths swearing I would not divulge what I had seen and experienced in the temple?

Visit my blog at http://justicefreedom4all.blogspot.com/ to see video re-enactments of the actual temple rituals and interviews with other individuals who also experienced the Mormon Temple rituals.

After participating in these rituals myself, I could no longer hold the Mormon faith in my heart and in my mind. As I exited the Wash, DC Mormon temple after going through the rituals for the first time I was asked by other Mormon's who accompanied me what I thought about what I had seen and experienced.

My response was that if those ceremonies/teaching were indeed of God, then I would rather go to hell with non-Mormons.

I feel that this information needs to be disseminated immediately. Voters must have this "sacred, not secret" information so they can make their own decisions about whether a practicing Mormon would be their choice under all circumstances of national security.

How meaningful will an oath of office be for someone who makes death oaths to their God in the name of their religion?

And what I find even more frightening - why is mainstream media treating these Mormon issues like the naked Emperor is marching by?

I can longer live in fear of the millions of Mormons who have taken the death oaths. Citizens of America have a right to the facts.

Dianne Pearce
Phone: 636-675-5232
Email: dpearce@erols.com