1039: Todd and Sarah Gale - The Challenges of Attending Church with Accused Sexual Predator Joseph Bishop (Chandler, Arizona) Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 75 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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| 0:35.8 | What's it been like and I think the most important thing we don't want to lose perspective, the most |
| 0:55.3 | important thing from the church's perspective and from all of our perspectives should be how do |
| 1:01.2 | we keep the children in the youth and the adults safe. Regardless of his status as a member, |
| 1:10.8 | was the war to stake ever pulled together and said we have a verified confirmed admitted sexual |
| 1:18.4 | predator in our midst. Here's what you should all know about him. Here's how you would protect |
| 1:23.2 | yourselves. Here's what we're doing to protect you. Was there ever a conversation like that in your |
| 1:29.2 | order stake? Never. And I think that's the most important thing, right? Even the United States or |
| 1:36.3 | various states have a registry for sexual offenders where you can look up who's in your neighborhood |
| 1:43.2 | who lives near you so that you can protect your family. Nothing like that has been done with |
| 1:53.0 | with the word membership. Nothing. I think the chronologically to your comment there the next |
| 1:59.2 | thing to share is this past summer we got a week notice ahead of time that our area 3070 was coming |
| 2:10.0 | to visit with us just the adults during third hour. It was just for third hour and he wasn't visiting |
| 2:17.8 | any other words. He came just to our work. Okay. And they adopted a question and answer session with |
| 2:26.2 | the adults. So in my mind I'm thinking great. Finally we're going to we're going to talk about it |
| 2:33.7 | the elephant in the room. You know we're we're having an area 3070 70 year. I want to hear what |
| 2:40.0 | they have to say. You know are they going to to your point John acknowledge what we have and are |
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