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Hello and welcome to Atheistically speaking episode 136 with your host Thomas Smith.

Well, we're going to continue the interview with Megan and she has a lot to say so I'm just going to get right to it. Here you go.

Well I'm very curious how, where you ended up actually leaving the church.

How did that start?

Okay, cool.

So just all these things I was noticing, so the sexism was one thing. I was also reading a lot of

Since my minors in English I was reading a lot of

Feminist theory like oh my god I did they even let you read that I'm surprised

it's funny and then postmodern and I was just loving it and this whole idea of

deconstruction and and it was really kind of opening my eyes up to things and just being out of my

household and being a little more free to look at different things and think about things

critically was really good for me. So those are kind of the seeds and then also at that time was 2008 when

Prop 8 was happening. My freshman year and that was an interesting time for me.

I had, let's see, so probably it was happening.

And during one of those word prayers, right?

The bishop comes over to your dorm and he helps his spiritual thought.

He asked any students from California

if they would please make calls to California residents,

meet at a certain place, and try to convince them church members in California

to vote against Prop 8, right?

Yeah.

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