James Finn
1 min readSep 28, 2022

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Stop it. Stop telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. I got several sentences into your response, only to see you, in effect, telling me I'm full of shit.

You are dead wrong. I'm telling you from direct personal experience that Mormons treat LGBTQ people like shit, every day, routinely. I'm also telling you I have inboxes full of communication from Mormon youth whom Mormons treat like shit because they are gay or transgender — directly because of homophobic LDS theology. Vicious, cruel theology.

You can call me a liar, you can presume I'm exaggerating, you can deny my truth. Knock yourself out.

Keep that smug smirk on your face and keep telling yourself what a lovely person you are and how wonderful your religion is. That's what you're going to do anyway, isn't it?

But I'm not wrong, you are.

Mormons treat people like me like shit. Constantly. When we LGBTQ people know we're around Mormons we get the out, because we don't want to deal with your hatred, hostility, and cruelty.

When you're ready to admit that truth, try communicating with me again. Until then, get away from me.

Know this: I stopped reading what you had to say when you dismissed what I had to say.

Stuff that into your self-congratulatory little pipe and smoke it down deep.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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