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What's it like to be an Asian Mormon?

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I'm not Asian, but I've attended a Mormon ward for 30 years which has quite a few Asians in the congregation--Chinese, Japanese, Philippino, Korean, and Polynesian at this time, and with comparable mixes in the past. read more

Mormons have a lot of beliefs that make us seem peculiar to the majority of Americans (no drinking, not shopping/playing on Sundays, etc). There are a lot of things about being Asian that make us feel different (intense focus on academics, eating ALL THE TIME, etc). read more

For a married Mormon woman who does not have children, there are constant questions and suggestions. The idea that a married Mormon woman might choose not to have children is honestly so strange within Mormonism that infertility is assumed even when it is not the case. read more

I never had to deal with being a Mormon lesbian—only an ex-Mormon lesbian. I had identified as both ex- and gay for more than a decade by the time the church came out with its latest decree: On Nov. 5, 2015, a leaked document declared gay married people to be apostates, traitors banished from all levels of heaven, whose children cannot participate in church rites unless they disavow their parents. read more

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