Month: September 2014

A BYU professor writes an editorial for The Daily Universe

by Roni Jo Draper, Ph.D BYU education professor BYU has again been ranked as the No. 1 Stone Cold Sober school. That’s cool. Sobriety deserves celebration. BYU has also been ranked as the No. 4 LGBTQ Unfriendliest school. This should give…

The Mormon Crisis and the “Gay Question”

By Eli McCann (also published at his blog www.itjustgetsstranger.com ) A few years ago the nation recognized a new phase for my community. They called it “the Mormon Moment.” Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, a number of significant events took…

There are no closed off souls

By Diane Oviatt (a speech given in Berkeley, California Sep, 2014) There are no closed off souls. No one is impervious. Story, unlike anything else, can change the heart. I learned this first hand five years ago this month, when…

What Manner of Men and Women Ought We to Be?

by Tom Christofferson (Address given at ALL Are Alike Unto God, 2014 Arizona LDS LGBT/SSA Conference April 26, 2014) At this tender time for my family, I am grateful to my brothers for their willingness to plan our father’s funeral…