1037: Todd and Sarah Gale - The Challenges of Attending Church with Accused Sexual Predator Joseph Bishop (Chandler, Arizona) Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend the same Mormon ward as accused rapist/sexual predator Joseph Bishop?
Todd and Sarah Gale attend the same Mormon ward as Joseph Bishop (in Chandler, Arizona). Last year McKenna Denson shared a recording of her confrontation with Joseph Bishop, who was serving as president of the Provo, Utah Mission Training Center at the time he is accused of sexually assaulting McKenna in the 1980s.
Both share their thoughts and feelings of sharing a ward with Joseph Bishop, and discuss precautions and actions they take to protect their family.
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| 0:35.2 | Hello everyone. Happy New Year. It is January 1st, 2019. As always, my name is John Delin and I could |
| 0:59.2 | not be more excited for the first Mormon Stories podcast episode of 2019. This isn't necessarily |
| 1:09.5 | the episode that I strategically planned for January 1st for New Year's or for the first Mormon |
| 1:17.7 | Stories episode, but timing and situation made it so. Today we have a very fascinating and interesting |
| 1:29.6 | interview on Mormon Stories. Just to give you a little bit of a preview before I make a few |
| 1:37.0 | announcements and then we dive in, many of you heard last year, one of the biggest stories of |
| 1:43.3 | 2018 was when McKinney Denson shared with the world an audio recording of her confrontation |
| 1:53.7 | with accused of sexual predator slash rapist Joseph Bishop who was the president of the Provo |
| 2:02.6 | Missionary Training Center when McKinney was in the MTC going on her mission to serve the LDS |
| 2:12.4 | and in that audio recording Joseph Bishop acknowledges or admits to not only sexually assaulting |
| 2:18.8 | McKinney but other people as well. This was a big story, a national story, maybe even an international |
| 2:25.0 | story and for those of you who have been following Mormon Stories podcast over the years, |
| 2:31.7 | you will have heard us interview last year Sam Young, the Protect LDS Children's Movement, |
| 2:37.3 | which has been very closely tied to McKinney Denson, and Joseph Bishop, and lots of other stories |
| 2:43.9 | where we've learned again that in way too many instances the LDS Church is found to protect |
| 2:53.8 | sexual abusers at the expense of victims and also to punish people who attempt to speak out about |
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