How You Can Keep Your Head Down and Pass as a Mormon While Living in Utah

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Heidi

– July 12, 2011Posted in: Snippets

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See this list from the Hairpin.

Tags: humor, the Hairpin

3 Comments

1. Michael

   Posted July 12, 2011 at 1:26 PM

   Why would you need to “pass as a Mormon”? I was a member of the LDS church for a decade or so, and when I decided that the faith wasn’t working for me, I also decided one critical thing: If my friends and family couldn’t accept me for who I was and what I believed, then they weren’t worth investing the emotional capital.

   I understand the humor of the card. However, to me, having to pass yourself off as something you aren’t to avoid confrontation is disingenuous and, in a sense, lying to yourself and those around you. It does you absolutely no good in the long run. I speak from the experience of having tried it for several years. In the end, I felt like I had betrayed myself in an effort to be what I was not.

   In the immortal words paraphrased by the Genie in “Aladdin”: Be yourself.

2. Heidi

   Posted July 12, 2011 at 1:34 PM

   Michael, in all seriousness, I absolutely agree with you.

   Did you click on the link? It was the jars and lids that got me.

3. Michael

   Posted July 12, 2011 at 1:40 PM

   I particularly loved: “Be really, really nice”… “unless someone mentions gay people or abortion, then be really, really quiet.” Humorous and disturbingly true all in one breath. :-)

   It was a funny list.

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