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I recently sold a story, an excerpt from my book, to the online news website Orato. It was posted just now, and I am very pleased with how it turned out.

For those interested in some of my own personal experiences at the place I have been telling you about for the last several months, which haven't been told until now, I encourage you to read Trapped in A Mormon Gulag

Here is the link: Trapped in A Mormon Gulag


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Thanks for posting this, Eric, and congrats on getting this published!

I have it bookmarked and will read it a little later tonight, and add comments.



How is the book and the movie coming?

This is going to give Eric a lot of needed exposure to the world. According to Wiki:

It was recognized as one of the top 12 news websites in the world by the 2008 Webby Awards, called the Oscars of the Internet by The New York Times, receiving approximately 10,000 visits per day, up to 55,000, from a mostly American demographic.

It will be very interesting to see the responses to this.

Ray A wrote:This is going to give Eric a lot of needed exposure to the world. According to Wiki:

It was recognized as one of the top 12 news websites in the world by the 2008 Webby Awards, called the Oscars of the Internet by The New York Times, receiving approximately 10,000 visits per day, up to 55,000, from a mostly American demographic.

It will be very interesting to see the responses to this.

Especially from law enforcement and child protective services.

Good work GoodK. You've proven among other things, that if it weren't for the pull from the rest of society, the Mormon church would probably end up having been the most evil institutions ever created by humans.

Interesting read. While I don't really believe you were sent simply for not wanting to attend seminary I also think these ranch places can be similar to what you described. I also appreciated on your website the following: "We are not — in any way or by any means — expressing an opinion of the beliefs or practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). In fact, we feel that the fundamental practices of the Utah Boys Ranch are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, Jr."

LifeOnaPlate wrote:Interesting read. While I don't really believe you were sent simply for not wanting to attend seminary I also think these ranch places can be similar to what you described. I also appreciated on your website the following: "We are not — in any way or by any means — expressing an opinion of the beliefs or practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). In fact, we feel that the fundamental practices of the Utah Boys Ranch are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, Jr."

For the record, I never said there was a reason why I was sent there in this article.

Please read carefully:

"My step-dad and I had been at war since I had refused to go to seminary, a church service for Mormon kids in high school that began at the ungodly hour of six in the morning. I loathed early morning seminary more than the three hours of my Sunday regular LDS church service consumed, or the three hours on Wednesday nights. My opposition, paired with my step-dad's religious fanaticism, resulted in being grounded almost to the point of indentured servitude. Grandma's house was my sanctuary."

http://live.orato.com/lifestyles/2009/0 ... lag?page=1

I also inferred that the reason why you were sent was because of seminary.

Phaedrus

//by the way I posted the link on Digg. For those that want to vote it up and give it some exposure.

Phaedrus Ut wrote:I also inferred that the reason why you were sent was because of seminary.

It was a major reason, but it's more complicated then that. I would have liked to explain more of the background story like my book will, but I had to make this fit into 1,800 words. Another important part of the story:

"It turns out that any form of decadence - smoking a little grass, telling your math teacher to sit on it, being gay or bi-curious, sexually assaulting a family member or young girl - is curable by a little hard work, tough love, and Mormon doctrine."

http://orato.com/lifestyles/2009/01/02/ ... lag?page=8