homosexuality Archive

  • The Church and Homosexuality

    Posted on December 6, 2012 | 8 Comments
    I hope that, despite our setbacks, the Church will truly listen to its LGBT members and begin to loosen the reins that it has proverbially set upon our backs for decades.

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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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  • Scrapping the Scouts?

    Posted on July 25, 2012 | 34 Comments
    Stuart started participated in Cub Scouts last year when he turned 8 (which is when Mormon boys start participating in scouting.   We have our own troops and we kinda play by our own rules.)   I was thrilled because all three kids could go […]

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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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  • 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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  • Mind the Gap

    Posted on February 1, 2012 | 20 Comments
    I recently re-read Carol Lynn Pearson’s amazing No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones for the second time because a woman in my very-Mormon book club picked it for us to read.   For me, it was at least as inspiring […]

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  • The Windows of Heaven Shut: A Historic Moment Denied By A Publication Called LDS Newsroom Blog

    Posted on September 3, 2011 | 32 Comments
    This post comes to Doves & Serpents from Atticus F. McConkie. Joanna Brooks, a respected author and scholar, and faithful member of the Church, in an August 24 article in Religion Dispatches, covered the significant news that Mitch Mayne, a Mormon who happens to be […]

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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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  • Heroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church

    Posted on February 23, 2011 | 73 Comments
    This guest post is written by Brent D. Beal, whose marriage to Heather Olson Beal is not at all threatened by the idea of same-sex marriage. My name is Brent Beal.   I’ve been married for eighteen years.   My wife and I have three […]

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  • “Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”

    Posted on November 17, 2010 | 23 Comments
    “Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”   I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few times, I was speechless (which pretty much never happens to me). After those first few times, my canned response became: “Well . . . if […]

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