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Local Utah TV reports on Same-Sex Attraction in the Mormon Church (Part Two)

Chino Blanco, October 30, 2010November 9, 2011

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KUTV interviews Sister Dottie S. Dixon: Former LDS Homosexual Says Church Shouldn’t Ask For Change (who writes these headlines?)

How much longer before mainstream Utah news orgs adopt the same frame as the rest of the country, namely: LGBT folks often grapple with their received religion for good reason (i.e., it’s time to give up the bass-ackwards framing that suggests we’re all somehow born religious and then proceed to “struggle” to varying degrees with the “burden” of sexual orientation).

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  1. Chino Blanco says:
    November 7, 2010 at 9:44 pm

    Unitarians to honor Mormon author: Sister Dottie S. Dixon and Rebecca Heal of the Saliva Sisters will be co-hosting a benefit auction on Nov. 13 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the University of Utahs Rice-Eccles Tower.

    As part of the event, Carol Lynn Pearson will receive the 4th annual Fairly-Free Thinker Award from the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City.

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