Overview
- Nate Blouin’s decade-old forum posts, first reported Wednesday by Punchbowl News, show insults toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and crude remarks about women.
- The posts on Reddit, Teton Gravity Research, and LetsRun include calling the church bigoted, alleging it was a drug cartel, boasting about defecating in a church parking lot, and joking about filming porn with an underage sister.
- Blouin, 36, apologized in statements to Deseret News and Newsweek, calling the comments vulgar and saying they reflect a version of him in his early twenties that he now rejects.
- The disclosures come less than two weeks before the Utah Democratic nominating convention on April 24–25, and Blouin has already secured a spot on the June primary ballot by collecting signatures.
- Deseret News and Raw Story published detailed follow-ups after Punchbowl’s scoop, and the district’s large Latter-day Saint population makes the remarks especially sensitive to delegates and voters.