Category: Proposition 8

The 8 things I’d like to ask 10

The 8 things I’d like to ask

I know…I have resigned my membership. So why do I care about the new Mormon church policy update that impacts LGBT Mormons? Why bother stressing about it if I don’t even belong or believe? Because...

Church files Amicus Brief against Marriage Equality 7

Church files Amicus Brief against Marriage Equality

So, we’re in the final phase of the Prop 8 battle:  the arguments before the Supreme Court.  This thing should be decided sometime this summer. The CoJCoL-dS, along with a coalition of other churches...

SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED BY BEING GAY AND MORMON 1

SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED BY BEING GAY AND MORMON

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,...

9th Circuit overturns Prop 8 — LDS response? 11

9th Circuit overturns Prop 8 — LDS response?

In 1980, the Church released a pamphlet against the Equal Rights Amendment. It included a fear that the amendment would encourage a “blurring” of gender roles as well as forcing “states…to legally recognize and...

The Church’s “Political Neutrality” 12

The Church’s “Political Neutrality”

As we enter a new election cycle, here’s a link to the Church’s statement about the Church itself being “neutral” to matters of “party politics,” even as it encourages its membership to be responsible...