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A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE AND A LETTER TO MY MOTHER

Robin Johnson, January 2, 2013January 2, 2013

A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE Another 17 year old boy named Jack Denton Reese committed suicide on April 22 in Mountain Green, Utah after being bullied for being feminine and/or gay, the day before his boyfriend Alex Smith spoke at a panel about the bullying Jack experienced.  The panel…

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A GAY PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD FAMILY

Robin Johnson, January 2, 2013

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…

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SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED BY BEING GAY AND MORMON

Robin Johnson, January 2, 2013

SOME THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED One thing that I have learned is: although Gay people are born gay; when gays have gone through the process of: first denial, then self-loathing and other steps, and finally acceptances; then Gay people are ready to move on to healthy relationships.  Another thing…

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ANOTHER GAY MANIFESTO: MY PROBLEM WITH THE MORMON CHURCH

Robin Johnson, January 1, 2013

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…

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OUR MANIFESTO: THE TIME HAS COME

Robin Johnson, January 1, 2013January 1, 2013

I Robin Lee Johnson and my boyfriend George Allen Circle have made a decision. We will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the Mormon Church or any Christian church with anyone. We will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right-wing Christians about how…

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“I consider it progress that they are thinking more like a company and less like the Soviet Union.”

Chino Blanco, October 5, 2011October 6, 2011

That’s John Dehlin in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Excerpts from “Church asks Mormons: Which websites, writers do you read?“: The LDS Church is surveying its members about their readership of key websites and Mormon writers, a move that reflects the faiths growing interest in managing its public image as two…

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‘Mormon Matters’ Looking for New Collaborators/Writers/Podcasters

Chino Blanco, September 29, 2010September 30, 2010

John Dehlin posted this announcement at Mormon Matters, which I’m copying-and-pasting below (and adding my encouragement that you consider contacting John … if you’re already blogging, participating could be as simple as cross-posting your work to Mormon Matters). Mormon Matters is looking for a few new collaborators to re-work the…

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