By Nik Rasheta (also published at http://theabhaus.blogspot.com/) In April 2012 the police department that I work for announced that it was going to allow uniformed officers to March in the Phoenix Gay Pride Parade. Officers everywhere around me were upset with…
I was TERRIFIED. I had to lock my knees so they would stop shaking. I’m sure if you put a microphone up to my chest, my heart would have sounded like a jackhammer. But it had been on my mind…
By Christopher Cooper Is it wrong to aspire to positions of leadership, or request advancements within the priesthood if you feel you have been overlooked? Active, worthy, gay members of the Church may readily advance through the mechanical steps of…
The central theme of the Circling the Wagons Conference held in Salt Lake in February of this year was relationship building. The focus of the conference was on developing a set of guiding principles or norms for people of differing…
By Greg Searle (also published at his blog http://gsearle.blogspot.com/) Wow, nothing here for the last 4+ years. That’s real dedication I tell you. I guess I took a break from this technology and engaged in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. for a time so…
By Kalani Tonga Tukuafu (also published at Feminist Mormon Housewives blog under the title ‘Why “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” Doesn’t Work for Me’ http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2014/03/why-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin-doesnt-work-for-me/) These days, there is much ado about modesty rhetoric. People hotly debate both sides of the issue,…