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Dear Mormon Voters American West: Maybe You're White Horse We've Been Waiting

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Dear Mormon Voters of the American West: Maybe You're the White Horse We've Been Waiting For

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent]Just forget about the White Horse Prophecy. It's a fun bit of Mormon folklore, but like most folklore it's fictitious nonsense. Read more

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Identities Formed By Trauma Are Still Valid

[Content note: mentions of sexual assault]A common way that people invalidate certain marginalized identities is to claim that they developed as a result of trauma. Read more

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