killing teens in the name of religion.......

[marshlander]

If I wasnt socially phobic I would more than likely have a wife and kids as well right now. I was able to leave my addictions behind me. Sorta hard to make a family disappear once you come out so I am sorta glad I went the route I did. Thank you for your support and kind words.

My home town Marion NY is just directly north of Palmyra NY where Mormonism was founded. The Mormons would have an big festival called The Hill Cumorah Pageant every summer. From a outsiders perspective I always got a cultish vibe off them.

Coming out caused dreadful disruption in my family and I had to take some very difficult decisions. Things are much better these days. This morning I had the wonderful pleasure of walking my nine year old grandson to school

Sadly, he and his parents (my son and daughter-in-law) are very deeply bound up in the LDS church and they won't be resigning membership any time soon. It all went very quiet last evening when I described one of their recent prophets as creepy and a torturer.

Even at my most deeply involved in the LDS Church the Hill Cumorah Pageant always struck me as a very silly event and I had no wish whatsoever to attend it. Having recently looked at the all the very different accounts Joseph Smith gave of his "first vision" (given under various circumstances between 1820 and 1838) the whole nonsense surrounding the pageant is fiction of the most manipulative kind.