1422: The 2021 Mormon Purge Continues: TikTokkers Neesha and Kyle Brost
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 302 minutes
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Summary
As the COVID pandemic begins to slow in Spring of 2021, we are seeing a surge in vocal Mormon church members being summoned to disciplinary councils for excommunication on the charges of apostasy. Last week Natasha Helfer was excommunicated from the Mormon church for nothing less than advocating for ethical mental health and sexuality. Today we interview Neesha and Kyle Brost, who were recently threatened with excommunication by their Mormon leaders for posting videos to their very popular TikTok channel.
This is Neesha and Kyle's Mormon Story
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm your host, John DeLin. |
| 0:04.8 | It is April 23rd, 2021. |
| 0:07.5 | And I am so excited to be back in the saddle again doing Mormon Stories podcast interviews. |
| 0:12.2 | Obviously last week was a traumatic week. |
| 0:14.9 | Uh, it was the excommunication of Natasha Helfer, my dear friend and colleague and beloved |
| 0:20.4 | mental health professional to the Mormon people. |
| 0:22.8 | A bunch of friends in me, we traveled to Kansas, Wichita, Kansas, and we attended or we |
| 0:29.7 | were there to support Natasha and her disciplinary counsel. |
| 0:32.7 | We were hoping she would not be excommunicated because she did not want to be excommunicated |
| 0:36.6 | and unfortunately she was excommunicated. |
| 0:39.4 | She wasn't even allowed to enter her disciplinary counsel. |
| 0:43.2 | They said it was because she wouldn't turn off her phone, but they did not tell her in |
| 0:47.2 | advance that she would not be allowed to have her phone on and she had all her notes |
| 0:52.0 | from the disciplinary counsel on her phone. |
| 0:54.6 | And so they wouldn't let her in. |
| 0:55.8 | And it was a really crazy scene. They had cop cars waiting to escort us all off the premises. |
| 1:02.3 | It was just not fun. |
| 1:03.9 | But Natasha was amazing and there was so much love and support there. |
| 1:07.8 | And I just want to say Natasha was excommunicated because she's been a public advocate for science-based, |
| 1:13.8 | evidence-based mental health and sexual health. |
| 1:16.5 | And that's literally why they excommunicated her in 2021. |
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