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LDS vs LGBTQ:  Nathan Kitchen sheds false binaries

@Monya_PostMo, April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

In his memoir, the former President of Affirmation shows how to embrace both queerness and faith The LDS Church’s stance against gay people has evolved in the past half century. Homosexuality is no longer blamed on sexual abuse, poor parenting or, as Spencer W. Kimball said, an embarrassing “search for…

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Congratulations David Archuleta: X-Mormon of the Year 2022!!!

chanson, January 18, 2023

David Archuleta has been a beloved LDS performing artist since the early aughts — the sort of charming and wholesome star who makes Mormons look good in the eyes of the public. Only one problem: like a lot of people in showbiz, David is gay. This is not a problem…

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Testimony Brenda meets the Laffertys

I’m a gay Mormon, and I am Brenda

Jacob N, June 15, 2022June 18, 2022

Coming out as gay to Latter-day Saints is always emotionally exhausting for me. I came out slowly, first to myself at 19 and then fully to others at 24. Before I was fully out, in 2016, I had to balance my coming out between the LDS Church’s stated positions on…

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The Dangerous Myth of Big-Tent Mormonism

Robbie Pierce, April 4, 2022April 11, 2022

About a year after I excised Mormonism from my life, I received a Facebook invitation from someone I hadn’t thought about in all that time. It was for an event called “Sit With Me Sunday,” organized by a group of self-proclaimed LDS allies to LGBTQ people as an attempt to…

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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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BEING GAY: SOME THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED!

Robin Johnson, January 1, 2013January 1, 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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Gay Man Is Excommunicated Twice For Being Homosexual

Robin Johnson, December 31, 2012

Gay Mormon Man Excommunicated Twice For Homosexuality Hello, my name is Robin Lee Johnson (real name in case you are wondering) and I am an ex-Mormon with over 50 years of experience with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I knew that I had “Same-Sex-Attraction” since I…

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BYU Honor Code open thread

Chino Blanco, March 3, 2011March 3, 2011

No links. Just a rant. And then the floor is yours, commenters. Anything goes, but reminiscence and nostalgia related to good times at BYU are highly encouraged. 😉 But before that party gets started, let me just say … My sense is that Brandon Davies has been offered up as…

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Latest Comments:

  1. termal kamerayla su kaçak tespiti on LDS vs LGBTQ:  Nathan Kitchen sheds false binariesJune 21, 2025

    termal kamerayla su kaçak tespiti Ekip çok organize, kaça?? an?nda bulup çözdüler. https://bence.net/read-blog/25188

  2. Cara B. Klein on My conspiracy theory #2April 26, 2025

    Wow, I had never thought about it in that way before You have really opened my eyes to a new…

  3. chanson on LDS vs LGBTQ:  Nathan Kitchen sheds false binariesApril 16, 2025

    The haiku at the end is lovely. Sounds like a great book!

  4. Donna Banta on LDS vs LGBTQ:  Nathan Kitchen sheds false binariesApril 14, 2025

    I imagine anyone who has tried to change the church from within will identify with Kitchen's story. I especially like…

  5. Johnny Townsend on LDS vs LGBTQ:  Nathan Kitchen sheds false binariesApril 14, 2025

    This was a painful review to read. For many years, I held the same hope, that the LDS church would…

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