Okay, so I've avoided using this label-- "ex-mo" aka one who has recently or not so recently left the Mormon church. I don't want that to define me-- it is not who I am. I am not bitter. I don't hate all Mormons. Most of my friends are Mormon, and I love them to pieces. Most of my family is Mormon, and naturally, I love them, too. So why is it they cannot love ME completely and fully for who I am? I don't share the details of why I left because I want to avoid doctrinal issues that make it sound like I'm persuading them to alter their beliefs. Yet it is the entire premise of the Church that they should alter everyone else's beliefs to be the same as theirs, because of course, they have the ultimate, unconditional truth and everyone else should want it or have it or they will not be truly happy. Has it occurred to anyone that I am truly happy now?
So what got me started on this little tyrade, enough to begin a blog in fact, is this: I'm PTA President. Yippee for me, right? Well, I just found out today that two moms found out about my ever-so-quiet exit from the Church and expressed to another mom that they had concerns about me being the PTA President. Luckily for me, the other mom is an active Church member who's own father has left the church. She asked why the PTA president had to be Mormon and basically defended me.
What shocks me is that anyone would have such an idiotic reaction in the first place. That's the most ludicrous, judgmental reaction I've ever heard, and I don't think that I can look at these ladies the same again. Only in Utah County would I be persecuted for not being Mormon! Worse than a non-Mormon is an ex-Mormon, of course.
Well, I'll be the best damn PTA president they've ever had and I hope they wallow in guilt for their unfair prejudice and gossip!
3 comments:
It makes me wonder if anyone in Utah County has heard of the separation of church and state. Maybe after all these years of apathy, I will finally actually WANT to be involved in the PTA.
But seriously, it gave me a chuckle. Thanks
Kate
Imagine if you came out and said your were a Satanist. Those Moms would be at your door ready to burn you at the stake.
Thanks for the great story. I used it as an example in talking to one of my LDS friends.
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