1310: Hannah Comeau - Struggling with Scrupulosity and Feminism as a Mormon Teenage Girl in Rexburg, Idaho Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In today's episode we sit down with Hannah Comeau, who shares her story about struggling with Scrupulosity (Religious OCD) and feminist inclinations as a Mormon teenage girl in Rexburg, Idaho.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:03.0 | Come, come, you saints, no toil nor labor fear. |
| 0:28.0 | But with joy, when you're way. |
| 0:34.0 | So you got good treatment. |
| 0:37.0 | And does that take us to the part of your faith crisis or was there the things you want to talk about? |
| 0:43.0 | Okay. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, yeah. I'll say so. |
| 0:46.0 | I would say so. |
| 0:47.0 | So, so this is kind of interesting for me. |
| 0:51.0 | So I'd always had definitely some questions about certain things in church history. |
| 0:58.0 | Polygamy was the biggest thing for me. |
| 1:01.0 | That was very, very hard as a teenager. |
| 1:05.0 | And I would focus on that so much and be so just frightened by maybe that I would have to live that way. |
| 1:15.0 | I would have, I'd have dreams about it. |
| 1:18.0 | It would just, there's a moment in my life where it just kind of consumed me. |
| 1:23.0 | So that I think was a, so issue, some issues like that. |
| 1:29.0 | I just had a very, very hard time time squaring. |
| 1:33.0 | Because to me, like this church was my whole world. |
| 1:38.0 | It's just the way things worked. |
| 1:41.0 | So if there's something like polygamy that was very uncomfortable for me, I just, I didn't know what else to think besides, well, okay, this is gonna be my life, I guess, you know. |
| 1:54.0 | So, so the interesting thing for me is that, so I did start doing more research on church history. |
| 2:03.0 | I did find, you know, resources such as the CES letter and I watched this podcast a lot and, um, |
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