(CNN) Colbie Holderness says she met Rob Porter at a Mormon student congregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When Porter turned abusive and their marriage went bad, Holderness said, they turned to the church for guidance. Willoughby, who was married to Porter from 2009 to 2013, also said Mormon bishops discouraged divorce. "It is almost inevitable that this will cause the Mormon church to examine their existing guidance to local church leaders." "The Rob Porter story typifies everything wrong with Mormon men not believing abused Mormon women," wrote civil rights lawyer Carolyn Homer on the Mormon website By Common Consent .

Source: CNN February 09, 2018 21:12 UTC