RE: the OP
I liked SteelCurtain's advice quite a bit but I have two follow up clarifications:
1) Do you think your dad wants to maintain a relationship with you? Or is your desire to maintain the relationship one-sided?
2) Where does your mom fit into all this? Can you bring her in as an ally or an intermediary between yourself and your father? Or is she 100% on his side and losing a relationship with him means losing them both?
What?!? What's wrong with marrying a Mexican? Are they not "white and delightsome" enough for the Mo's? 
I liked SteelCurtain's advice quite a bit but I have two follow up clarifications:
1) Do you think your dad wants to maintain a relationship with you? Or is your desire to maintain the relationship one-sided?
2) Where does your mom fit into all this? Can you bring her in as an ally or an intermediary between yourself and your father? Or is she 100% on his side and losing a relationship with him means losing them both?
(June 4, 2014 at 4:26 pm)elconquistador Wrote: Wow, that makes me hurt inside. The mormon faith also has racial/economical "guidelines" for marriage. According to the mormon faith, I wasn't supposed to marry a mexican woman from a poor family because I am white and from a borderline upper middle class family.
What?!? What's wrong with marrying a Mexican? Are they not "white and delightsome" enough for the Mo's?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
