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Coming Out | My journey into recovery and self love.

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

I am a 30 year old native Utahn and a member of the LGBTQ community. I was raised in an active LDS family and from a very young age I felt “different”. I recall from a young age being told … Read the rest here

Accepting My God-Given Gay Nature

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

I share my story to help other gay Latter-day Saints, and their loved ones come to peace with their sexuality, faith, and identity as beloved children of God. Those things are not mutually exclusive. I likely wouldn’t believe my story … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Deven

Posted 7 years ago Tagged bisexual Mixed Orientation Marriage

Hello! My name is Deven Jennings. A little about me: I am a proud new dad to a beautiful baby girl (as seen in this picture below), a native Oregon boy (go Ducks!), a passionate psych nurse (how do you … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Forget Being Gay And Focus On Other Things

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I am gay and I am currently serving a full time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I’ve been out in the field for a little over a year and I really struggled a few months … Read the rest here

That They May Be Light

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Kyle Ashworth | In the New Testament, the Apostle Peter wrote that disciples of Jesus Christ are to have “compassion one of another.” Over the last year, and with Latter Gay Stories I have witnessed so many of you fulfill … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Alma

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My name is Alma. I am a single mother of two boys who are my everything. My life journey has been a perplexing one. I almost don’t feel prepared to offer it up to people because I feel like I … Read the rest here

Coming Out | To feel nothing so as not to feel anything — what a waste!

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“I still worry about what the closet might have stolen from me. I worry that I’m learning things far too late for the stakes to be negligible (they’re higher and higher all the time). I worry that I missed the … Read the rest here

Coming Out | ‘Tis the Season

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It is usually around this time of the year that we focus on giving gifts and running door to door giving out homemade treats to our neighbors. I remember this month for something equally special to me. In addition to … Read the rest here

Changing Hearts

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Rebekah Dawn Simpson Clark | What does it take to change people’s hearts on LGBTQ topics? How can I persuade a person who believes that gay marriage and/or gender transition are sinful to support those things?

These are questions that … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Zach

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My name is Zach Sites. I can remember being as young as 8 or 9 and suddenly feeling very different. Growing up I had friends from all different walks of life. Living a life growing up in the Church of … Read the rest here

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Real Stories. Real Talk. Real People
IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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Nothing could have prepared me for being approached by the entire standard works—plus the 116 lost pages.

Check your kids’ candy this Halloween. Ten percent may already be missing.

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“When I was navigating my own coming out experience, I didn’t hear much from anyone. But when I started following LGBTQ accounts, people noticed. There were all kinds of questions about what it meant and plenty of conversations about me that didn’t include me.

I remember wondering why nobody had this much interest in how I was doing •before• they thought they had some kind of dirt or salacious secret on me.

Following those accounts wasn’t something I needed help with. It was one of the ways I was finding support and community. But that became the concern to all those who were using my own social media to “monitor me.” Whatever I really needed in my life at that point (like supportive friends and family) seemed to get lost in the secret discussions about my sexuality and the rumors people wanted to be become truth.

I don’t expect people to read my mind, honestly, I don’t. But what bothers me is knowing that people in my circle had so much extra time available to look through my social media and talk about it with other people, but somehow no time to talk to me. A message asking how I was doing would have been welcome. A lunch. Maybe even a text. Instead, I spent way too much time wondering who knew what and what I’d have to explain when the rumors started circulating.

I guess my point is simple. I wish we put as much effort into helping each other as we put into finding things out about each other. Being talked about and being cared about feels really different when you’re the person on the receiving end.”

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You cannot be born gay. That was the message Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer conveyed at General Conference in October 2010. Members heard it. Some cheered. Many were thrilled to see their senior apostle make such a bold statement.

Packer rejected the idea that people could be born with attractions they couldn’t overcome, referring to “inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural.” His next question made the implication difficult to refute: “Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone?”

Five days later, the Church published an edited version of Packer’s talk. “Tendencies” became “temptations,” and Packer’s question about God was deleted. The Church acknowledged the edits, explaining that speakers review their talks before publication and its spokesman said, “President Packer has simply clarified his intent.”

In that same Conference talk, Packer also said the Family Proclamation qualified as revelation. That assertion was also removed, updating the description of the Proclamation to a “guide.”

Regarding homosexuality, the Church’s official stated position, articulated by Dallin H. Oaks four years before Packer spoke, was that it took no position on the causes of “same-sex attraction”. Its current guidance also says “a change in attraction should not be expected or demanded as an outcome of faith.”

In 2019, the Church stated that it “opposes ‘conversion therapy’ and our therapists do not practice it,” explaining that Family Services would not provide sexual-orientation change efforts.

Members are nevertheless taught to trust these leaders with decisions that determine the course of their lives. Apostle M. Russell Ballard’s earlier assurance was explicit: “We will not lead you astray. We cannot.”

If a gay person spent years trying to become straight because they trusted an apostle, they were led astray. The Church cannot promise that its leaders won’t do that, revise their teachings when they do, and leave the people who believed them responsible for the consequences.

Packer spoke with authority the Church gave him, and the Church owes those people an admission that he was wrong, not an explanation of its editing process.
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