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I was shocked to read the most recent article on sexual morality that was just published in the March 2014 issue of the Ensign by Elder Tad R. Callister regarding a recent fireside he gave at BYU-Idaho, and have spoken with several other LDS professional therapists who were shocked as well. \u00a0I do not take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,14,21,22,36,62,37,16,23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-gospel-teachings","category-lgbtq","category-marriage","category-masturbation","category-pornography","category-self-injury","category-sexual-education","category-sexuality","category-single-adults","category-suicide-2"],"yoast_head":"\n
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