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God and Being Gay

September 8, 2009October 1, 2011 Joel McDonald8

Cross-posted over at Virginia Beach Progressives and Our Own Online. This is somewhat a lengthy post on how my sexuality affected my faith in God. It’s also a brief account of my entering into and coming out of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From July 2004 to June 2006, I served as […]

Sustaining Church Leaders…or Not

August 15, 2008January 15, 2011 Joel McDonald10

What the Mormons (and others) don’t understand about freedom

July 16, 2008July 16, 2008 Joel McDonald13

It’s not religious. It’s not moral. It’s not even about family values. Gay marriage is a constitutional issue, but not in the same way that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormon Church) views it. It wants an amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman based on their […]

Returned Missionary’s Political Conversion

February 20, 2008June 21, 2011 Joel McDonald10

In the past, as an Evangelical Christian and as a Mormon, I voiced a lot of support for the Republican party. For me, at that time, it wasn’t a matter of fiscal, domestic, or international policy; it was a matter of emotionally supporting the imposition my accepted morality on the nation as a whole. My […]