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Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ordination edition
chanson is on vacation this week, so I’m going to attempt Sunday in Outer Blogness. On the faithful side of outer blogness, things have been astir about female ordination. Not surprisingly, many faithful mormons disagree about this issue. Considering the last time feminists called for female ordination they were excommunicated, my hope is that this time will be different. Personally, I want to cheer the small victories, but it also seems a little like crumbs from the table… On the Read more [...]
Posted in LGBT, Sunday in Outer Blogness, Women
Mormon Trolls, Gorgons and Orcs, and Being Tired of Good People
Currently the most posted story in my Facebook feed is this excellent NY Times op-ed from Ta-Nehisi Coates, entitled “The Good, Racist People.” Coates uses the recent frisking of Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker as an opportunity to analyze the racism of “good” people: In modern America we believe racism to be the property of the uniquely villainous and morally deformed, the ideology of trolls, gorgons and orcs. We believe this even when we are actually being racist. In 1957, neighbors in Levittown, Read more [...]
Posted in discrimination, Feminism, Homosexuality, LGBT, Sex and Gender, Uncategorized
A GAY PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD FAMILY
The Proclamation of Robin Lee Johnson and his own life experience. I believe that all gay people are valid human beings who have the God given right to marry the person who they love and as long as they are monogamous and keep the law of chastity which they are doing by being married, they should have all of the 1,049 rights and privileges that comes with being married. This is the first and foremost belief I have. I have someone that I wish to marry right now and I do not think that I am sinning Read more [...]
Posted in Affirmation, Family, Homosexuality, LGBT, Marriage, Morality, Mormon Matters, Mormons, Motherhood, Parenting, Patriarchy, Proposition 8, Women, World
ANOTHER GAY MANIFESTO: MY PROBLEM WITH THE MORMON CHURCH
What Can I Say…I Am Still Gay! I have never been known to stay where I am not wanted. My present Bishop and Elder’s Quorum President do not like me because I am now openly Gay and they know it. They are both very Homophobic. L Therefore, I have been refused all my Temple blessings, the Priesthood, and participation in home teaching, or teaching Church lessons or having callings or doing other meaningful service or being able to participate in church activities or other special events in Read more [...]
Posted in Abuse, Advice, Affirmation, Boyd Packer, Depression, discrimination, Hate, Homosexuality, LGBT, Mormon Doctrine, Mormon Matters, NOM, Prophets, Religious Right, Suffering, Suicide, Tolerance
It Even Gets Better for Straight Spouses
Here’s an “It Gets Better” video made by a group of straight spouses in MOMs: OK, I can’t make the embed code work, so here’s the link to the youtube page: http://youtu.be/xkKoD1uVbrE The “about” page of the website of the group that produced the video, Straight Spouses, states We started as an informal group of LDS women with children, on a journey to find peace with our religion and our lives, the center of which seemed to always be the fact we are or once were married to a gay or bisexual Read more [...]
Posted in Divorce, Family, Homosexuality, It Gets Better, LGBT, Marriage, Mixed Orientation Marriage
Revisionism: The Sin (and Doctrine) of the Ages
About 15 months ago, I published a pieceon MSP, the first of series of posts exploring issues related to mixed-orientation marriages, that generated a number of comments by someone who identified himself as An Inner Light. I subsequently found out that this person is Joshua Johanson, a youngish Mormon who is married to a woman but admits publicly and loudly that he has same-sex attraction (SSA). What greatly disturbed me at the time about Johansons comments to my piece was what I viewed as his Read more [...]
Posted in Apologetics, Boyd Packer, Homosexuality, LGBT
Those Uppity Gays
The whole Chick-fil-A controversy reminds me of a period of time in recent American history when a segment of our society that tried to assert what it believed to be its civil rights and dignity was brutally repressed, particularly in a certain section of the country. I refer, of course, to African-Americans which is certainly not what they were called back then. Recently, I loaned our copy of The Help to my young teenage son to watch. He told me later that he enjoyed the movie but was appalled Read more [...]
Posted in Gay Agenda, Hate, Homosexuality, LGBT, Religious Right
Gay People Do Exist – Coming out to my Grandparents
Gay People Do Exist! Coming Out to My Grandparents My grandparents were/are committed Christians. They’ve taught 3rd and 4th grade Sunday school for as long as I can remember. On the infrequent occasions when I attended their church, from kindergarten until I was about 12, I always pulled up a chair and sat between them while we were going over the lesson as a class and eat doughnuts my grandma faithfully bought every Sunday. They taught me about God, prayed with me, and told me of God’s grace. Read more [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christians, Depression, discrimination, Family, Hate, Homosexuality, LGBT, Marriage, Moving On
Boyd-Speak: Where I’m At and Why I Bother
Invictus Pilgrim formerly blogged at invictuspilgrim.blogspot.com. For personal reasons, he has taken that blog private and has started at new blog at mohosapiens.blogspot.com. The following was his initial post on his new blog. A little over 15 months ago, I was prompted (not in the Mormon sense, but in the common-usage sense) to start blogging about what I was going through. A few weeks before, I had been blasted out of the closet upon hearing a talk which soon became infamous that was delivered Read more [...]
Posted in Boyd Packer, Homosexuality, LGBT, Uncategorized
Anti-bullying lesson: Schools should not “out” students to their parents!
A school district in Lehi, Utah, is on the defensive after its decision to out a student to his parents, and the situation backfiring. We are not going to back down,” a spokeswoman for the school district said. “We take bullying very, very seriously. The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has noted that while it is important for schools to deal with bullying and notify parents of any instances, this should be done without disclosing a students sexual orientation or gender identity. “Taking Read more [...]
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