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Well, everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John D'Alene.

We are continuing our coverage on Mormon Stories of inappropriate interviews with Mormon leadership about matters of sexuality.

This is now the third interview in our series. We've interviewed Paul and we interviewed, I think she won't by the name Anne in the interview.

Sometimes we have to do these interviews anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the issues involved. But we're not continuing that series. And we're so excited to be doing this again to remind people this is following up Bishop Sam Young's petition that he started.

He's a childhood friend of mine, he and my dad were business partners a long time ago, but Sam Young, former Mormon Bishop has now created a petition for people to sign to try and get the Mormon Church to stop interviewing 12 year olds and teenagers, girls and boys alone in a closed room about matters of sexuality, shaming people over masturbation and pornography and sexual experiment.

Sexual experimentation for a number of reasons and we're laying out those reasons in this series of interviews. And we just want to encourage everyone to sign the petition if you can share it and do all you can to be a spokesperson in your wards and stakes and a protector children.

So that we do all that we can to prevent these sorts of abuses from going on. But now we are doing part, part three in our interview and we're really excited to have with us Anna.

Is going to be talking about her relationship.

And she's also going to be speaking on behalf of Tyler, which is the name she's using for her husband to talk about their experiences dealing with Mormon leadership over private interviews dealing with sexuality.

So I want to thank everyone for joining us live on Facebook live. We really do want to encourage everyone to please make comments and questions because it makes these interviews more interesting to have them be a little bit interactive.

So we want to we want to welcome everyone who's joined us so far. We've got a good audience already building and without any further ado, I want to welcome Anna to Mormon source podcast and Anna, you've decided not to use video for this interview. Is that right?

Correct.

Tell us tell us why.

I have some family members that are still very involved in the church and close friends and just kind of want to keep the video portion out of it.

I know that's great. So we totally understand and these are these are totally sensitive issues. So we're just grateful that you're willing to be with us.

And we'll just ask our listeners to please forgive us that you don't have full video, but you get full audio and just understand that sometimes we're going to have to not show video just for the sake of sensitivity.

Thank you for for allowing me to do that. I appreciate it.

Of course. All right. So why don't you begin by just telling us just a bit about your your Mormon story just so that we get a sense. You don't have to tell us about anything past the interviews.

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