I saw this on the request list for IAmA.
I’m not really sure what to explain about the situation. I was raised LDS until I was 18 and my family was trying to convince me to go on a mission. I simply couldn’t keep a clean conscience about being gay and continuing further down the LDS path.
I’m not particularly good at predicting what people want to know, so ask some questions, and I will be sure to answer them as well as update the relevant information up here.
EDIT: I’m including up here some of the important specifics so people don’t have to jog around the entire comments just to get a gist of the situation.
I grew up in South-Eastern Idaho; Idaho Falls, ID specifically. Mostly people think that communities that are mostly Mormon exist only in Utah. However, over half the population of my city is LDS. It’s even more when you take the subdivision I was raised in. My subdivision alone was about 90% LDS. Read the rest of this entry »
I saw this on the request list for IAmA. I’m not really sure what to explain about the situation. I was raised LDS until I was 18 and my family was trying to convince me to go on a mission. I simply couldn’t keep a clean conscience about being gay and continuing further down the [...]
