Maya Umemoto Gorman
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Podcast Appearances
Yes, the girls.
Okay, so this is where they ate as fuck.
I feel like it perfectly explains Mormonism, like, to a fucking T, in the sense that, like, the whole play is about how they accidentally create, they go to Africa, and they, like, accidentally create a religion.
That, like, they, like, make...
a huge population of Africa, like, believe in.
Wow.
And it essentially shows how that's exactly what Joseph Smith did and how easy it was to convince people that, like, this is why this happened.
and like here's the thing and that's powerful and that's what i mean like powerful i really a part of me wishes that like i could still feel that way because like yeah life definitely made a lot more sense like definitely even when it was so fucking hard it was so easy but i will say that like i am thankful for like the honesty that like
I had to like face because genuinely there were so many questions that like it just got to a point where it's like a lot of these people just look away like when you ask them like well how can this be there is no like this is the answer and this is the why it's just like oh well it is what it is God's this and God's that but I'm just literally like especially like I mean the big one for me for obvious reasons was like
homophobia, like being gay.
And like, I like specifically at the church I went to the way people like I was celibate.
So like, I literally was like not having sex.
Like I was like not about that life.
And I, like, really believed, like, that's what I was supposed to do.
And, like, that was, like, right and, like, whatever.
And that's just what I thought to be right.
So, like, obviously, I'm, like, so, like, don't know shit about shit about shit.
And so, for me, the thing, especially in Bible college, that would have me, like, so fucked up was, like...
they would try and say like being gay is wrong.
And like, that's a sin.