I’m gonna tell God how you treat me I’m gonna tell God how you treat me I’m gonna tell God how you treat me ` One of these days –Hollis Watkins, “I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table/One of These…
Salt Lake: We Have a Problem
Author: Bob Rees
The Heart of the Matter: Capstone Address at the Compassionate Care Conference
The Heart of the Matter: Capstone Address at the Compassionate Care Conference (Seattle, 17 August 2013) Over the past day and a half, we have had the opportunity to listen to and consider a wide range of opinions, beliefs, thoughts, arguments…
Thoughts on General Conference
I was encouraged by some of the messages at general conference. A number of them reminded me of my central covenant to love the Lord with all of my heart, might, mind and strength and to love others as I…
Inconvenient Truths & Convenient Falsehoods: Broadening and Deepening the Conversation about Homosexuality among the Mormons
A moral man cannot be patient in the face of Injustice. . . . A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. –Martin Luther King I begin with a confession of faith. I am a believer.…
No More Strangers Panel, Sunstone 2013–Bob Rees
(This is part of a four part series including remarks made by four panelists at the Sunstone Symposium Session focusing on this blog–NoMoreStrangers.org) 2013 has been a landmark year as far as LGBT issues is concerned: the Church brought its…
From Russia With Hate
As much as we like to consider ourselves as living a civilized society, one of the things that should give us pause is the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, not only in what we might consider…
Gays and Lesbians as Parents
I was surprised—and delighted—to read the headline, “Salt Lake City Has Highest Population of Same-Sex Couples Raising Kids.” Surprised because it seems counter-intuitive and yet, according to the survey (conducted by the UCLA Williams Institute), “Metro areas with the highest percentages…
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I was twelve years old when Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line and started playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Two years before this, my father had come home from World War II, rescued me from a foster home, taught…
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…
Black-White, Gay-Straight: A Perspective on Perspectives
(Admin note) No More Strangers is a new forum seeking to advance the dialogue regarding LGBT people and Mormonism. As such, it has the good fortune of having bloggers who have made significant contributions to Latter-day Saint LGBT people, their…