On a Sunday evening in July, a couple dozen former Mormons and guests packed the upstairs alcove in San Francisco’s Hotel Utah Saloon. Some had driven more than two hours for the yearly Pioneer Day gathering, a chance to regain some of the community for which the Church is known. The draw endures for decades: [...]
Posts under ‘Politics’
Affirmation Messenger, 17-Jan-11
Words are powerful. Probably more powerful than many of us even realize. Sometimes they are used to describe simple things like a light bulb, camera or a remote control. Other times they are used to tell inspirational messages or stories that touch our hearts. Words have the power to save lives or take life away. [...]
Statement on President Boyd K. Packer’s Talk in General Conference
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons joined The Human Rights Campaign, the Utah Pride Center, and Equality Utah in delivering the signatures of 150,000 individuals to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters, protesting recent comments made by President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This took place on October 12th at 11:00 a.m. MDT in front of LDS Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City.
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.
Messenger 21-Sep-10 Follow-up
A response to a reader’s comments of the last edition of the Messenger.
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.”
With marriage equality on hold in CA, what are the next steps?
To ensure that everyone is up to date: (I am not a lawyer, and a fair amount of my summary may be opinion rather than fact. Any faults are my own, and the summary and opinions expressed in this post are not the official opinions of Affirmation.) Early this month, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker struck [...]
Orrin Hatch: “Gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, their religion is politics.”
Speaking at Dixie State College in St. George on Tuesday 1 June 2010, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) remarked during an anti-Democrat/liberal speech that the GOP needs to organize like LGBT/SOGI rights activists. Says the HRC Religion and Faith Program Director Harry Knox: “Senator Hatch’s statement that gay people’s religion is politics is insulting and demeaning [...]