Monte Mader

I mean, he would have my brother and I memorize like front and back pages of scripture verses every week.

And the first group of pages we got was all about adultery.

And it was all these verses on the adulterous.

But my dad would not let us speak to my birth mother.

And it was you're on her side.

You're on mine.

If you speak to her, you are choosing to be in sin and you can't be in my house.

And it's it's that type of and it's not just being thrown out of the church.

It's it's like being thrown out of your intimate family, losing contact with your siblings or your parents or not being able to see the family dog.

And it's very much used as coercion to keep people trapped.

And often they just, you know, I get messages from people and thankfully most of them have finally moved past that fear point.

But when my account first started taking off, I would get messages from people all across the country in the world.

saying, I've been so afraid to say that I'm pro-choice or I've been so afraid to oppose this one thing because if I do that, my family's going to throw me out.

I'm worried about what will happen.

I got so many messages from kids, teens that are in the LGBTQIA community who said, I'm worried that my parents are going to beat or kill me if I tell them the truth.

And that is really the reality of how high control and how coercive those systems are.

Did you guys see the the CPAC interview with Schlapp on Piers Morgan, where he said they were talking about the girls that were killed in Iran, the school girls.

And he said, well, they're better off dead than in a burqa.

Yeah, I saw exactly.

That is such a reflection.