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		<title>“I Support Marriage Equality&#8211;and I’m a Mormon”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valentine Marriage (2:10) Marriage Equality Equality Federation Mormons for Marriage Affirmation Calendar March 10-11 Sunstone Symposium in Kirtland June 1-3 Utah Pride Festival July 25-28 Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City October 19-21 Affirmation Conference in Seattle What is your earliest memory of working for marriage equality? My own recollections go back to 1998, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“A [Gay] Mormon Just Believes!”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Bowers Affirmation Calendar February 2 Bill Bradshaw to Discuss Homosexuality in Provo February 3-4 Sunstone Symposium in Claremont March 10-11 Sunstone Symposium in Kirtland June 1-3 Utah Pride Festival July 25-28 Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City October 19-21 Affirmation Conference in Seattle by Fred Bowers Taken from the hit Broadway musical “The Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon Attitudes Changing (Slowly)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Timelines: Mainstream and Mormon attitudes toward homosexuality A few tidbits show Mormon attitudes have changed, albeit frustratingly slowly, over the decades. 1970s: The American Psychiatric Association declassifies homosexuality as a mental disorder 1970s: BYU sponsors electroshock aversion therapy for gay male students (See http://www.affirmation.org/news/2011_043.shtml) 1986: Active LDS member Carol Lynn Pearson publishes her memoir, Goodbye, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Politcal Neutrality Possible for a Church?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Olin Thomas Affirmation Calendar January 25-29 Creating Change Conference in Baltimore January 28 Affirmation Potluck in Portland February 3-4 Sunstone Symposium in Claremont March 10-11 Sunstone Symposium in Kirtland June 1-3 Utah Pride Festival July 25-28 Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City October 19-21 Affirmation Conference in Seattle by Olin Thomas, Affirmation Executive Secretary 23 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Off the Blinders of Ideology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Hear Year!  It’s been a while since I’ve written to you all. I hope this reaches you doing well and keeping on track with your New Year’s Resolutions. I didn’t make any this year, so I guess I get to avoid that traditional disappointment. But, that has been replaced by other levels of disappointment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.affirmation.org/2012/01/taking-off-the-blinders-of-ideology/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the Ride of My Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 Equality Riders, including three riders who grew up LDS: Jason Conner (floor, far left) and Robert Moore (couch, far right). Photo: Cole Parke Robert Moore A Passion for Equality: A Conversation with Robert Moore&#160; 2012 Equality Ride Robert&#8217;s Rider Page “Do As I&#8217;m Doing” (Primary Song) Affirmation Calendar&#160; January 20-22 Mormon Stories Conference in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.affirmation.org/2012/01/preparing-for-the-ride-of-my-life/</link>
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		<title>A Journey We Travel Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randall Thacker Affirmation Calendar January 25-29 Creating Change Conference in Baltimore October 19-21 Affirmation Conference in Seattle by Randall Thacker, Affirmation Senior Vice President Hello, Affirmation friends. I hope you are settling well into 2012. I haven’t met many of you, but one thing I know for certain is that you are all in very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.affirmation.org/2012/01/a-journey-we-travel-together/</link>
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		<title>Friends, Romans, Countrymen…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Behn Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears…So begins one of the most famous monologues in the Shakespeare cannon, and one which could probably rank grand enough for Marc Antony, himself. Like that statesman, I appear before a group of my peers, anxious to say the words that are needed for the moment. But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.affirmation.org/2012/01/friends-romans-countrymen%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; May your heart be filled with the joy of the Christmas miracle, now and throughout the year, and may your home, wherever you find it, be filled with love, good cheer, and peace. The Affirmation Executive Committee: David Melson Mary England Joshua Behn Hugo Salinas Bruce Maughan Robert Moore Buck Jeppson &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Melson This is the last Messenger that you will receive from me as President, and so it seems appropriate to step back and take a look at the past three years. When I first ran for President (Executive Director then), I said that I wanted to serve for three years; you have graciously supported [...]]]></description>
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