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Back in 2022, after I had become a Lazy Learner, my husband was called to teach primary. I was not asked beforehand, despite the fact that the Handbook says I should have been. They don't qualify it in any way, they just say if the person is married you have to ask their spouse. But, I received a ...

One of my 8th grade students (in a very much not LDS part of the world) mentioned BYU in a conversation. I said "oh my husband went there." Then I pulled up a picture of Brigham Young on Google images, and told my 8th graders that you can be kicked out of BYU for growing a beard. They were ...

I'm a public school teacher, not in Utah. My state is trying to hop on the Florida/Texas bandwagon.

The bad news is, we have a Republican supermajority so it's all going to go through. The good news is, the ACLU watches these laws being written and they are SALIVATING.

I think it's about Nelson symbolically dancing on Hinckley's grave.

How many pretend temples are not getting built THIS time around?

Ooh, I spoke too soon. Husband absolutely NEEDED me to come help him with laundry, RIGHT NOW, while the choir was favoring us with my least favorite hymn of all time, even 'I Stand All Amazed.'

My husband is outside doing yard work, not listening to Conference - for the second time today.

I am SO CONFUSED.

Youngest is a freshman in high school. As soon as she graduates, I'm filing for divorce. For a hot second I thought 'maybe I should go back to church and everything will be okay.' But that's ludicrous. The thing is, even while I was orthodox he disregarded my feelings, withheld empathy, and used my ...

His place in line is assured. All Oaks has to do to inherit the big chair is not die. Why does it matter if he crushes his water bottles for recycling or not?

My husband doesn't have it turned on. Did he forget??? And when he remembers, whose fault will it be for not reminding him? (spoiler alert: me)

Somebody apologized??? What did I miss?

An apology in Conference is as rare as someone getting cancer and not dying from it!

I'm in my bedroom with the door closed, watching a movie (Greyhound, which is great, but is suspiciously devoid of long doggos) and I can tell it's Eyring just by the quavering. God, it's so PERFORMATIVE.

Oh, it's nice that they got today's woman speaker out of the way early. Hopefully the rest of the day will be a sausage fest so my husband doesn't have to be forced to listen to female voices, which is against his religion.

My mother in law swears that she met my husband in a dream before he was conceived. Cute story. But... I don't know, I have dreams all the time about having another baby, and I'm 43, my youngest is in high school, and I'm on 2 forms of birth control. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. And, being a ...

I'm a misotheist. (That means that I hate God, not that I worship Japanese soup. Although...) I was enormously relieved to find that there is a word for it, and that it's not even all that uncommon of a belief.

I don't think it's a coincidence that my need for church- based socialization went WAY down when I started my actual career (at 39). I have to assume that's why it's so important to them to keep women at home and largely isolated, to create an artificial need that only they can fill.

My Alma Mater, Butler University, beat BYU in basketball on Thanksgiving Day! I've been waiting 20+ years for my husband's school and my school to play each other and it finally happened. Butler led for pretty much the whole game, too. Fun fact: Butler is named after an abolitionist, and it was one ...

They'll get away with it. They have enough money to make it all go away.

What new locations will not be receiving a temple? I was literally folding towels and that was more interesting than GC.

Let's see how many pretend temples Rusty announces!