Identity / Spiritual Abuse

  • Threaten to reveal your sexual orientation or gender identity without your permission
  • Mock your accent, family or home country
  • Make fun of you for not having a high school diploma or college degree (or make fun of the school where your diploma or degree came from)
  • Prevent you from worshiping at the time when -- and in the place where – you want 
  • Say that you aren’t practicing your religion correctly or that you belong to the wrong faith 
  • Ignore or make fun of religious/cultural values or beliefs that are important to you
  • Use or threaten to report your immigration status to your employer or government officials
  • Interfere with faith-based rituals or practices that are important to you or keep you from a faith community you would like to be part of
  • Force you to practice a religion that you didn’t choose
  • Use religion/scriptures to justify abuse
  • Use racial, ethnic or gender-based slurs and stereotypes to belittle you