Did you think my kiss was a promise of what you’ll have? No, my pompous one. It was to let you know what you will not have. The Mormons’ relationship with the Religious Right keeps reminding me of this crazy Ten Commandments quote. In kind of an opposite sort of…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
Trunk or Treat?
Is anyone doing this “Trunk or Treat” thing? I’d never heard of this as a kid (maybe it’s new or something), and I’m glad. Really, are your neighbors that scary that you can’t let them give candy to your kids? When I was growing up, we went out trick-or-treating around…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Prop. 8 Edition!
My apologies to those who are annoyed that Mormon-interest blogspace has turned into an “All proposition 8, all the time” zone. Don’t worry — the election will be over soon. (Hüffenhardt is already ready to celebrate.) Yet, between now and then, I’ll probably write one more article about it. Yes,…
Forever family freak-show (conclusion of TW)
On Sunday morning, Rex and I went out to brunch with those people who weren’t going to church. Mom and Richard had been planning to visit the various local Christian churches that had LDS outreach ministries, but at the last minute the adorable baby motivated them to change their plans…
Sunday Around Outer Blogness
We really need to set up a “sideblog” around here to highlight interesting posts around our blogroll… For example, if we had a sideblog, here are a few posts I might highlight: Check out John R.’s Church Visit, in which he Is Taught to Show Love for Gays by Denying…
LDS Temple Rejects (TW continues…)
On the morning of the wedding, we determined to sleep in a little bit. We were planning to meet April and Susan at the Hobbs’ house, and we wanted to wait until we were sure that Brother and Sister Hobbs were gone to avoid crossing them and dealing with whatever…
How are the Mormons like the Jews?
It seems like whenever we talk about Mormons as a people and a culture, the first discussion point is always “How are we like/unlike the Jews?” It’s very natural for Mormons to see the parallel with this fellow tribe. It just hit me recently, though, that this connection might not…
The Dreadful Dinner (TW continues…)
When we got to Rex’s parents’ house, the three boys immediately rushed upstairs to put their backpacks in Jared’s room. Rex’s mother met us in the entryway and took my jacket. “Hello, Lynn,” she said, “It’s nice to see you again.” Then she yelled up the staircase, “You boys come…
See? There’s no problem. (TW continues…)
Once Grandma and Grandpa’s new business was cleared off the table and put away, I started showing everyone how to fold the little silver slips of paper into birds. I figured that it would be better to keep it simple and have everyone fold the same animal. With so many…
How I came to sympathize with the Mormons…
Step one was to finish my degree at BYU and go somewhere else. When you’re at BYU (or you’re a kid in a Mormon household), Mormonism seems huge and powerful (in a bad way, since LDS Inc. aspires to be kind of a mini taliban). As soon as I was…