I found this in drafts, and figured I might as well post it! It's old... But I had to finish up my coming out story. Which is really more of a... becoming an atheist story...





So this last fall I started college. Now I'm living alone 200 miles from home, but still very much in Utah. At first, it was great. I loved being by myself, having freedom, the weather was much better, school went pretty well, and the people seemed a lot nicer-- and less fake, particularly. …

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Title says it all. I posted before on my sexual life story... I wish I could say that things have improved since then.



Nope.



I don't think, when I wrote my first post, that I had experienced my first kiss. But I have now. And saw my first naked man in the same week. Kissing was cute, but not very sexual. Because I never feel truly sexual. The second guy I kissed, and likely my first time really "making out" is not a particularly good memory. I think the guy really is…

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Proposition 8 was never something easy for me to handle. I kept the old newspapers, got in more than one fight, and went to my first protest over it. I live in the heart of it. I live with the Mormons. I live with the sick, twisted, inhuman bastards who threw away millions of dollars to pass it. And to this day hearing about it makes my heart want to throw up.



I don't understand. I was well over this kind of ignorance coming out of elementary school. Yet even being raised in this…

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Shut up. Feelst is a word.



Surely you've noticed that as a culture, we Americans love the

boyscouts. We love them SO hard.

But just as surely, as an Atheist, you've probably noticed that they are

a piece of shit organization. Probably.



By which I mean this: The Boy Scouts receive copious amounts of federal

moneys. Yet, um. They're a religious organization. They rejectify (also a

word, shut up) atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, and women.… Continue

Caution: Really not as interesting as it sounds.







This is pretty messy, long and raw. But I know you were all dying to know every bit of this.

So, as everyone who has ever spent five minutes with me is aware, I was raised Mormon. Mormonism isn't the cult some make it out to be, aside from the fundamentalists, but it's still pretty damn crazy.



After my childhood friend told me my facebook photo was wrong and porn, I was trying to figure out how a person can live… Continue