Reply #26: It always amuses me that the Mormons know who my ancestors are. [View All]

[hunter]

There were some astonishingly eccentric people drawn to Salt Lake City generations ago. My own family history is probably not the sort of thing the Mormon Church would want their young missionaries to hear about, and this may explain why they have never, ever, visited my house. I'm certain my dead Salt Lake City ancestors, who were very troubling to the church in life, are the same sort of trouble in death. They probably greeted their posthumous Mormon Baptizers with the same wicked grin I have as I write this.

My ancestors coexisted with the Mormons, mostly in peace, but it was always a very strange relationship -- sometimes involving higher mathematics, very messy politics, hard liquor, infidelity, and dancing girls.

When my mom, born in the Mormon heartland, moved to Hollywood she didn't have any trouble adapting. She'd already seen it all.