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…
Category: LGBT
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
So a Mormon missionary walks into a gay bar…
Steven met a Mormon missionary in a gay bar twenty years ago, joined his church, has lived with him ever since. But apparently, nobody in this story is actually gay. Check out FAIR Blog for the inside scoop. From the link: Steven Wilson is a member of the Church living…
Evergreen International 2011 Conference Twofer
Seth Bracken posted a pair of reports to QSaltLake.com that I’m gonna simply link and excerpt here. Evergreen Conference Attracts Hundreds Jared, 17, sat through the sessions of the conference flanked by his parents on either side, in hopes to overcome his temptations, serve a mission, marry a woman and…
Is Sharon Slater asking Mormons to use LDS ward lists to promote her anti-LGBT agenda?
Look what landed in my inbox today: Urgent Alert: Help Stop Maricopa Community College Misguided Transgender Policy If you belong to a church, community or political group that has an email list you can also help by obtaining permission to have this alert sent to these lists.[1]
A Tale of Two Humanists
I read in the paper the a few weeks ago of the death of General Authority emeritus Marion D. Hanks. Elder Hanks very nearly had the privilege of being the first person I ever came out to. Heres the story, which happened some 32 years ago. My father was a…