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Stacy Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1023 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And how dare you this? And it was just this kind of breakthrough moment for me that just never left me. I just was like, oh, okay, I'm not allowed to question anything. I'm not allowed to... Or theorize or say, what if this happened again? Or it's keep your mouth shut, toe the line and keep your head down, do the work and don't ask questions. And I'm not wired that way.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And as I grew, it just got worse and worse. I just thought, wait a minute, let me get this straight. So having sex before marriage is bad, which is what you're taught in Mormonism. But Joseph was married, and then he started having sex with all these other women. So he would send these men on missions if he was attracted to their wives, ship them off to England, and then start boinking their wife.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And as I grew, it just got worse and worse. I just thought, wait a minute, let me get this straight. So having sex before marriage is bad, which is what you're taught in Mormonism. But Joseph was married, and then he started having sex with all these other women. So he would send these men on missions if he was attracted to their wives, ship them off to England, and then start boinking their wife.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And as I grew, it just got worse and worse. I just thought, wait a minute, let me get this straight. So having sex before marriage is bad, which is what you're taught in Mormonism. But Joseph was married, and then he started having sex with all these other women. So he would send these men on missions if he was attracted to their wives, ship them off to England, and then start boinking their wife.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And his wife found out about it. And then all of a sudden, oh, it was because he had a revelation. God told him he was supposed to have more wives. He was supposed to have engage in polygamy. So that's how he talked his way around getting caught with like 14 year old girls in the barn. You know, he was.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And his wife found out about it. And then all of a sudden, oh, it was because he had a revelation. God told him he was supposed to have more wives. He was supposed to have engage in polygamy. So that's how he talked his way around getting caught with like 14 year old girls in the barn. You know, he was.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

And his wife found out about it. And then all of a sudden, oh, it was because he had a revelation. God told him he was supposed to have more wives. He was supposed to have engage in polygamy. So that's how he talked his way around getting caught with like 14 year old girls in the barn. You know, he was.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Classically, this makes people very angry when you say it, when they're in the church, he was a pedophile. They want to say things were different back then. People got married younger back then. 30, mid 30s year old men having sex with a 14 year old girl was never accepted in America. That was never a thing. The other thing that I really always had a problem with was the word of wisdom.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Classically, this makes people very angry when you say it, when they're in the church, he was a pedophile. They want to say things were different back then. People got married younger back then. 30, mid 30s year old men having sex with a 14 year old girl was never accepted in America. That was never a thing. The other thing that I really always had a problem with was the word of wisdom.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Classically, this makes people very angry when you say it, when they're in the church, he was a pedophile. They want to say things were different back then. People got married younger back then. 30, mid 30s year old men having sex with a 14 year old girl was never accepted in America. That was never a thing. The other thing that I really always had a problem with was the word of wisdom.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Mormons are told not to drink coffee or tea, but they guzzle Diet Coke and Coke. And in Utah, I don't know if you've heard here, but we have these soda shops now. Have you heard about the soda shops?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Mormons are told not to drink coffee or tea, but they guzzle Diet Coke and Coke. And in Utah, I don't know if you've heard here, but we have these soda shops now. Have you heard about the soda shops?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Mormons are told not to drink coffee or tea, but they guzzle Diet Coke and Coke. And in Utah, I don't know if you've heard here, but we have these soda shops now. Have you heard about the soda shops?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

You would die. Everywhere you go on every corner, Swig, Gulp, Fizz, Bubbles, you know, they have all different kinds of names. And it's just giant 64 ounce sodas pumped full of like vanilla syrup and coconut syrup and, you know, Red Bulls. And so because Mormons don't drink alcohol, these are their versions of cocktails.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

You would die. Everywhere you go on every corner, Swig, Gulp, Fizz, Bubbles, you know, they have all different kinds of names. And it's just giant 64 ounce sodas pumped full of like vanilla syrup and coconut syrup and, you know, Red Bulls. And so because Mormons don't drink alcohol, these are their versions of cocktails.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

You would die. Everywhere you go on every corner, Swig, Gulp, Fizz, Bubbles, you know, they have all different kinds of names. And it's just giant 64 ounce sodas pumped full of like vanilla syrup and coconut syrup and, you know, Red Bulls. And so because Mormons don't drink alcohol, these are their versions of cocktails.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Here is the real answer to that question. So my way I brought this up was as I grew, I kept asking this question over and over and no one could answer it for me. And the reason is there's not an answer. The answer is something they don't want to talk about. Joseph Smith was a tobacco chewer. He had a plug of tobacco in his lip at all times. And he also liked to smoke pipes and cigars.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Here is the real answer to that question. So my way I brought this up was as I grew, I kept asking this question over and over and no one could answer it for me. And the reason is there's not an answer. The answer is something they don't want to talk about. Joseph Smith was a tobacco chewer. He had a plug of tobacco in his lip at all times. And he also liked to smoke pipes and cigars.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Here is the real answer to that question. So my way I brought this up was as I grew, I kept asking this question over and over and no one could answer it for me. And the reason is there's not an answer. The answer is something they don't want to talk about. Joseph Smith was a tobacco chewer. He had a plug of tobacco in his lip at all times. And he also liked to smoke pipes and cigars.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Why I Left The Mormon Church...

Every time he had a priesthood meeting after he formed the church, the men would gather and congregate at Joseph's house and spit their tobacco on the floor. His wife, Emma, his first wife, would then have to clean it up. So she told Joseph, I am banning all tobacco from the house. Well, Joseph loved, I'm sorry, Emma loved coffee and tea.