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Okay, since Tonchi brought the whole thing up.
I grew up a Mo, know all the ins and outs so to speak. Not a Mo now. Not raising kids to be Mos. The Mos are very prevalent but dont' bug me. I haven't heard a whisper from the ward house closest to my new neighborhood. No one has stopped by with a jello salad or a cassarole to invite us to the neighborhood. It has been very nice.
My family wasn't surprised when I left the flock, I am not the first and won't be the last in the family to do so. My husband's family is split too, some are Mos some aren't. No big deal. I drink around my family. We all still love each other and get along fine. The only complaining I heard was when I refused to baptise my kids into the Mos church when they were born. We don't go to church at all and I wonder if I am neglecting some parental duty to give them some spiritual guidance. I honestly don't feel any kinship with any religion and am fine without. I wish my folks would have let me get by without it but back in the day if you weren't a Mo you might as well be a leper. The kids were cruel. My best friend is greek orthadox and she grew up 2 houses away from me. I was unacceptable as far as the Mos were concerned because of my parentage so it wouldn't have hurt me a bit if they would have let me stop attending each Sunday. But they felt the obligation to make me go (even though they didn't go) Hippocrites. Anyway, Salt Lake isn't so stifled and controlled as one would think. It actually has some very cool people. The mayor of SL isn't even a Mo. He is getting into alot of trouble lately too but it has been fun while he was in office.