A Card Carrying Mormon’s Case for Fighting the Policy Change
Note: This is a cross post. To visit where the post was originally published, click here. By now, all of us have heard of the policy change by the LDS church. Reactions varied widely. I cannot explain...
View ArticleTHE EXCLUSION POLICY – IS THE CHURCH BEING LED ASTRAY?
With Elder Nelson’s recent reconfirmation of the Church’s exclusion policy,1 I hear a lot of members defending it by saying, “The prophet will never lead the Church astray.” Let’s take a look at that...
View ArticleAbsolving Reponsibility for Suicidal/Homeless Teens
Earlier this week I was caught up in an online conversation that has taken me a day to digest. On a thread discussing the trauma experienced by LGBT people and youth in the Mormon community, I had...
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Not Gay, But Not Exactly Straight
Guest Post by McKenna WIlliams, who shares her experiences as an asexual Mormon and how that shapes her views on the new church policy. There were two things I dreaded most about getting...
View ArticleGod Mostly Cares About the USA
There is one thing that been bugging me about the new LDS policy regarding children of gay parents being baptized (well, lots of things really). Why is it that here in Canada (and other countries for...
View ArticleLeadership Myopia
Does it matter who your bishop is? In my experience, many types of people can be good bishops. But they are not identical. They bring their personalities and experience with them to the calling and no...
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The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
By Michael Barker, PA-C and Daniel Parkinson, M.D. Note to readers: This blog post is very data driven. To help with the flow of the blog post, the studies referenced throughout are cited, footnoted,...
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Reaching out to the Tortured Soul
Depression and suicide have made their rounds in the Mormon blogosphere of late, particularly in regard to the issue of homosexuality in Mormonism. For me, this is a subject that hits home because,...
View ArticleMY BIRTH DEFECT
Note: This post first appeared on No More Strangers on January 20, 2013 I’ve always had an excellent memory. This is both a blessing and a curse. Some of my earliest memories are feelings of...
View ArticleElder Oaks Cites Bad Science…Again
On September 16, 2016, Elder Dallin H. Oaks presided over a question-and-answer fireside in Frederick, MD. In this fireside, Elder Oaks was asked the following question: “…what would you tell a friend...
View ArticleChurch PR Defames Its Own Website
This week in a BYU Provo marketing class of several hundred students, an employee of the LDS Church PR department came as a guest speaker on branding. He pulled up a website concerning showing love...
View ArticleUsing Junk Science to Attack the LDS LGBTQ Community: A Timeline
Toward the end of August 2016 the online journal The New Atlantis published a “special report” entitled, “Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences.” The...
View ArticleOn Hell, Aliens, and a Near Death Experience
Back in 1985, Rev. Howard Storm had a Near Death Experience (NDE) in which he was first taken to hell and dramatically rescued by Jesus. In 2000, Storm published a book entitled My Descent into Death...
View Article150: The CES Podcast, episode 31: 1 Corinthians 5-8
Does Paul contradict Jesus’ teachings and example regarding associating with “sinners”? Why is Paul concerned with male prostitutes and not female prostitutes? What are Paul’s views regarding...
View ArticleA Divinely Gay Mission
Can a gay and active Mormon have a divine mission? I went through a time in my life at one point where I wasn’t exactly sure. But I’ve come to very firmly believe that the answer to that question is...
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Dear Elder Oaks
Dear Elder Oaks, You don’t know me. We’ve never met, but I’ve listened to you speak from the pulpit since I was a child. You’ll likely never read this, but I feel compelled to express myself anyway....
View ArticleReaching out to the Tortured Soul
Depression and suicide have made their rounds in the Mormon blogosphere of late, particularly in regard to the issue of homosexuality in Mormonism. For me, this is a subject that hits home because,...
View ArticleMY BIRTH DEFECT
Note: This post first appeared on No More Strangers on January 20, 2013 I’ve always had an excellent memory. This is both a blessing and a curse. Some of my earliest memories are feelings of...
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