By Julia Madeline Taylor (originally published at her www.poetrysansonions.com) It is incredibly painful for me to sit at a computer, even my laptop. It is why my posts have been so sporadic lately, and why they will continue to be,…
Category: Marriage Equality
Marriage Equality
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…
What the Heck is Traditional Marriage?
In light of all the fuss over DOMA, Prop 8 and the Supreme Court, I have grown weary of the debates over same sex marriage. Five years ago I rather unenthusiastically participated in supporting Prop 8 in California. As an…
Doug Reviews Gay Marriage and Mormons
By Doug Chambers (also published at his blog dougreviewsthings.blogspot.ca) ____________ Disclaimer 1- Most of you know I am a member of the Mormon Church. So, if while reading this, you find references to church practices and policies that don’t quite…
Christ’s Transformative Love
By Dan Brooks (also posted in his blog http://ldsviews.blogspot.ca/) I was so so very very happy about the SCOTUS DOMA ruling that I spent an hour on a conference call from the Human Rights Campaign listening to all the legal nuances…
History, Part 5 of 8: Public Vows
By Scot, (a father, husband and gay Utahn) I’ve decided to get on to the point of my history and be done with it, but can’t skip this step: After over a year of being together, we began “shacking up”. At…
My Integrity Won’t Allow Ignorance (A Mormon Daughter on Having Gay Father)
By Hannah Stewart (also published at her personal blog and at feministmormonhousewives.org) A lingering question that takes up a lot of thought and pondering in my mind is how much of my real life to filter. Sometimes I want to…
The Victoria Theater
The journey of my family since my son came out last year has been a roller coaster ride of highs and lows. The spiritual, intellectual and emotional investment required to make sense and find peace between two polarizing worlds…
LDS v. USA: Mormonism in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage
By Taylor Petrey (also posted at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople) In a newspaper interview in 1994, Marty Baudet, the executive director of Affirmation, the flagship gay Mormon support group, said: “I predict society will acknowledge gay rights and, 20 years down the road, the church will…
Salvaging Our Humanity (and our Faith) from the Wreckage of Politics
Anybody who has been following the progress of Proposition 8 through the courts knew that the least likely outcome of the Supreme Court decision would be the one officially hoped for in the amicus brief filed by the Church, i.e.,…