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  • Single Experiences: Cost-Benefit Analysis from a Single Gay Mormon

    Posted on October 21, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Of course, there is a third way, which is to stay single and celibate forever. Here again, I'm fulfilling my need to stay in the lines drawn by the church, because this is the church-approved model for gay people right now.

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  • Whole Lotta Hate

    Posted on August 8, 2012 | 15 Comments
    There’s an awful lot of “hate” being thrown around on-line and in the media these days.   Mormons and evangelicals hate gays.   Chick-fil-A (the business and apparently, every employee of the company, by definition), hates gays.   A deranged gunman hated Sikhs.   Fred […]

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  • Teaching Sex: On Labels

    Posted on July 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Labels affect how we treat others. When we label someone as gay or straight, we often treat them as though they fit all that label implies.

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  • 4 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, Two Poems

    Posted on June 28, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Aaron Michael Kline received his BA in Theatre and English from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.

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  • Ride to Pride

    Posted on June 10, 2012 | 5 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Pride is a slideshow of pictures from last week’s Pride Parade in Salt Lake City, UT in which nearly 300 straight Mormons marched in support of their LGBTQ brothers and sisters.   I asked participants to submit pictures of the march and […]

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  • Sunday Morning

    Posted on June 4, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Today’s guest post was originally published by Marion Jensen on his personal blog: The Open Author.   Our gratitude to Marion for letting us share this with our readers and to Jennifer Bunker for allowing me to use the photo. ; This morning I marched […]

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  • 32 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Wheel of Fortune & Evergreen International, Inc.

    Posted on May 28, 2012 | 8 Comments
    Groups like Evergreen International only practice science when it's convenient. Like my grandma, when presented with contradictory evidence, they simply turn off the TV, insisting that their answer is better.

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  • 24 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: “We know that. . .”

    Posted on March 22, 2012 | 51 Comments
    I pick it up, open it, and read this sentence on page 3: "We know that gender was set in the premortal world."

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  • Ride to Affirmation Conference in Kirtland, Ohio

    Posted on November 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Hugo Salinas of Oxford, Ohio, who shared pictures from the annual Affirmation conference in September.   Hugo writes: On September 16-18, some 110 LGBT Mormons, along with partners and friends, gathered in Cleveland & Kirtland for our […]

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  • Around the Dinner Table: Do What You Are

    Posted on August 10, 2011 | 9 Comments
    ; [This is kind of cheating because it didn’t actually occur around the dinner table. It occurred in our mini-van, but it was dinner table-esque.] We spent 6 hours last weekend driving to and from our niece’s baptism (a beautiful family affair followed by hours […]

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  • A Twist on “Pioneer Day”

    Posted on July 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
    When it was announced that gays and lesbians would be allowed to marry in New York beginning on July 24, my first thought–as a lifelong Mormon–was, “Pioneer Day!”   While we’ve been talking about pioneers this week on Doves & Serpents, I have loved reading […]

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