This issue hasn’t yet been addressed. Our Mormon LGBT teens and young adults are killing themselves in alarmingly high numbers. Where is the response? Where is the campaign? Why is our best resource for understanding and combatting this problem being…
A Garden in the Desert
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the…
Ending Discrimination in Boy Scouts of America
Only by teaching kids to be inclusive and tolerant will we create worthwhile role models by David Baker (also posted at Affirmation.org) 28 April 2013 “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my…
Loyalty in Marriage
By Keith Penrod I just read a story about a man wanting a divorce because he had fallen in love with a lady with whom he had been having an affair. When he told his wife, she asked him to…
All Are Enlisted: The Mission of the LGBT Mormon
Talk given on April 27, 2013 at “All are alike unto God” Mormon/LGBT Conference in Phoenix, AZ (also posted at http://mitchmayne.blogspot.com/) Like pretty much everyone in this room, I suspect, I learned early on how important missionary work was to our church. I remember…
On Love and (Gay) Marriage–The Perspective of a Straight Mormon
By Matthew Greene (originally posted on his blog matthewonbeingmormon.blogspot.com) I was twenty-three years old the first time I let myself tell a girl I loved her. I fumbled around for a bit, talked in circles, and generally made a complete idiot…