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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.