Few of you know this, but I grew up in the Mormon Church. I never really fit in, given my Democratic and atheistic tendencies from a young age (although I tried very very hard for many years to be more like everybody else), and stopped going to church around the time I was seventeen. I had never formally left the church, though, because it seemed like more effort than it was worth and to make life a little easier on my parents.
After seeing the way the Mormon Church has mobilized in support of Proposition 8 in California, however, I can not in good conscience sit by and enable them, however slightly, by having my name on their membership rolls and inflating their member count ever so slightly. Thus, while it is a largely symbolic gesture, today I am sending a letter stating that I am resigning my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Will it make much of a difference? Of course not, because they believe that they have the only Truth and my piddling letter won't change any of that. All I can do is make the final break with that hateful organization. Fuck them and everything they stand for, and if they're right I pray Satan welcomes me into Hell (well, Outer Darkness in this case, but that's splitting hairs).
Chances are it will be processed without incidence, but there's a possibility that they might try to excommunicate me instead of letting me quit. All I can say is, I welcome a church court. Bring it on.