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Viva Le Revolucion
In many ways I wish I could be back in Utah for a proper rebellion, someday it might still happen. These "For your own good" laws are far beyond rediculous. For your own good, turns out to be a euphamysm, it really means "For OUR own good". I'll say here what I have said before. I love Utah, a lot, I miss it for many reasons and don't for many others. It is a shame that it's a horrible place to raise a family outside of the church. Because if you aren't LDS then you face a life of torment and frequent beatings (More common in rural areas) I know, I had eighteen years of it. For a lot of people that's hard to understand having never really been there. But, it's also hard for many of us to understand the victims of Stalin's Russia, or Hitlers Germany, having never been there. In a place such as Utah, the separation of church and state IS in the purest form of IMPOSSIBLE. Nearly ALL members of congressional Utah belong to the church. They take their personal feelings to the voting forum regardless of how the public feels. They do not think of how it will affect the people they govern. It's an Authoritarian society that must be put in its place. It must be put in check by the people who are fed up with its absurd rules and regulations that apply to everyone who chooses to live in Utah. They benefit only a very small fraction and hurts the rest one way or another. They even affect those of us who don't live there anymore but have family and friends who, by the very words of the Book Of Mormon, are "Whores, Harlottes and a part of the church of the abomination". They choose to live there and choose to not become members of the church and are harrassed because of it. There are a lot of us out here who have been ostricised and victimised by the church over the years, it's about time we all took a stand. My brother is ten years old and living in rural Utah with the rest of my family. He is at that special age where all kids start defining their place in society. I was about the same age when the -beatings commenced-, I don't want the same thing to happen to him. The church does indeed have its place in the world like everything else, but it doesn't have to be ALL OVER THE PLACE in EVERYONES business.
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