It’s a cold December day on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. My family and I approach the Salt Lake LDS Temple for my brother’s wedding. I love to see the temple, I’m going there someday, the words I sang as a young eager primary boy echo in my mind. From the beginning of my [...]
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An Unconventional Testimony
I grew up in Alabama, where one of the few beliefs the many Baptists and the not-so-many Mormons held in common was that being gay meant being pathologically oversexed, so much so that gender didn’t matter. When I left for college up north, I wasn’t concerned about challenges to my faith. I’d been a [...]
Affirmation Messenger, 06-Dec-10
This past weekend, some leaders with Affirmation met in Washington, DC, for an intensive training and organizational meeting. I was unable to attend because of work scheduling conflicts that couldn’t be resolved. Joining them were Carol Wise, Executive Director of the Brethren Mennonite Council: Supportive Congregations Network, Allyson Robinson, Associate Director of Diversity for the [...]
HRC & Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons to LDS Church: You Have Further to Go
New church policy removes call for harmful reparative therapy, but is a far cry from LGBT acceptance WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, and Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, the largest and oldest Mormon LGBT advocacy group in the [...]
Wear Purple this Wednesday!
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons joins with the LGBT community in support of Spirit Day, in memory of the many recent suicides that have taken place as a result of gay abuse. Just as importantly, it’s also a way to show the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youth who face the same pressures and bullying, [...]
Dan Savage “Almost Sorry” to Christians
Dan Savage is an internationally syndicated advice columnist, author, blogger, and queer activist. He’s a frequent commentator on major news networks and on talk shows. He is an expert on LGBTQ issues. Beth McDonald of 99.9 KEZ Phoenix recently interviewed Dan about his It Gets Better Project, a response to the recent rash of teen [...]
Messenger, 28 September 2010
We all want tomorrow to be better than today. We all put in a lot of effort to make that happen. We all like to think that we do really well with every effort and intent, and we all know what they say about the best of intentions. I want to stay hopeful. Preceding the [...]
Elder Marlin K. Jensen Listens to Pain Caused by Prop 8
There was never a statement suggesting that Elder Jensen felt the Church’s support of Proposition 8 was an error or that he was apologizing for that event.
John Dehlin to Interview Cary Crall, Discuss Prop 8
Mormon blogger John Dehlin has just announced a live-streamed Mormon Stories interview with BYU student Cary Crall, whose recent editorial about Mormons and Proposition 8 was yanked from the BYU website only hours after being posted.
BYU Student Tells the Truth about Prop 8, Gets Censored
Cary Crall: “It’s not about adoption rights, or the first amendment or tradition. These arguments were not found worthy of the standards for finding facts set up by our judicial system.”