So tonight, we had some people from the Church of Latter Day Saints come to our door, and I politely declined their offer to tell me about why I should convert. They gave me their card, I took it to be nice and all and threw it out after they left.

My step-father had heard the doorbell, and came downstairs after they had left. He asked me what was up and I said that we had just had some Mormons come to our door. And he was like:

Him: Well, I'm glad you got rid of them. Me:Yeah, I wasn't even rude. Him:I would have been. Me:I'm sure some of my other non-Christian friends would have been.. Him:What do you mean by other..? Me:Well. Uhm. I don't believe in God. Him:What the hell?! Your mother didn't raise you properly.. I can't even look at you.. I don't want ANYTHING to do with you! -insert him storming off around the corner-

I dont even know how to respond to that. Has anything similar ever happened in your family? Something your family members have said about something you cant/dont want to change about yourself?

Yikes, that is an overreaction at its best. :/

My mom gets angry in grocery stores and throws the f-bomb around pretty loud, thats embarrassing. Its not the fact that she uses obscenities, its the notion that she can't handle a stressful situation without making a scene like a child.

I just find it funny how he says he would have been rude to them (which isn't very accepting in itself) and then he gets all mad at you for being an atheist.

My parents want me to go to college and I don't really want to go. They keep telling me how AMAZING it will be. I think it's a waste of time/money :!

when my mom found out i had sex with my boyfriend last year she didn't forget to tell me, a handful of times in fact, that ''the other two'' (meaning my brother and sister) had never given her troubles like this and that i'm such a horrible child.

i cried for days.

That's horrible. She shouldn't have said such a thing, regardless of her stance on you having sex. She definitely could have handled it better... that was probably just a cop out instead of dealing with the situation..

i think it was more of her emotions acting instead. she'd never had to really deal with her ''children'' doing it.

Ew... that sounds horrible. I'm sure he'll come to accept it. If not... hey, who said you have to get along with him? =P If he's too ignorant to act that way and not accept/tolerate your beliefs, that's his problem.

My mom threw a bitch fit when I got a girlfriend. She was fine when I told her I'm bisexual. I suppose she thought it was just a phase and I wasn't taking it completely serious, but she did not like the thought of me having a girlfriend at all. She never said anything incredibly hateful to me, but she did make some comments that hurt me... I can't remember them now, but it sucked back then.

My dad made it all better though... when my mom asked my dad to help me find some hot Hawaiian boyfriend when I visited him that summer, he was like, "....there are plenty of lesbians here too!" XD And he decided to point out some lesbian couples to me... well, one was a tad too late... we were at the hot springs and he goes, "...did you see those two girls making out back there?" I spun around, saw nothing, and he was like, "...they just left like, five minutes ago." I was like, PFFFT. Should've told me sooner! But at least I got to watch the photography session of a bunch of cute Asian girls in swimsuits... whee~ XD

But... yeah... fun stuff. Don't worry too much unless it gets worse. First reactions can be messy.

o.o I think I lucked out in the parenting department, my mom raised me without forcing any one spiritual philosophy on me and joked about finding condoms in my closet, and we talk openly about shit like that. I'm still hesitant to tell her I'm bi, but I'm glad she's been kinder to me than others I know.

I'm sorry your dad's so intolerant, it's a silly and juvenile reaction. My guess is he'll start dealing with it pretty quickly if he exploded so quickly, it might just be some sort of an initial reaction. Anyway, you're his daughter, you'd think he'll have a nurture instinct, yes? Even if his beliefs differ.

*I know that there are cases in which that's untrue, but I like to hope that the world is mainly full of reasonable people... One of my good friends got disowned by his fundy mid-western ultra-christian family after he refused to accept that his father sexually abused his little sister for years. They said that since God forgave his father's sins to his child, then my friend should forgive his father too.

Edited spelling :)

My sister is Mormon. My mother hates it. Is actually -- literally -- petrified of Mormons. She saw them at my sister's house once; just visiting, hanging out. She did a u-turn in the middle of the street. o__o

That's not extreme or anything :|