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David Matheson, complicity, and walking away

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Affirmation conversion therapy David Matheson Evergreen LDS Church North Star

by: SBagley

Today I read in the newspaper that David Matheson came out as gay. You don’t know who David Matheson is, unless you know exactly who David Matheson is, and in that case you know a whole lot more. … Read the rest here

I might be completely wrong, but can I ask you a question?

Posted 8 years ago Tagged daughters family text messaging

So I did it, I came out!!!  I’m 54 with two daughters and married to a woman. Here is how it all happened…my daughter sent this text exchange:

Daughter: I might be completely wrong about this but can I ask … Read the rest here

Idaho Schools Deemed “Unsafe” for LGBT Students

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

By: Riley Bunch | Idaho State Journal

A new report by a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ student safety in schools shows that Idaho schools are unequipped and “unsafe” for non-gender-conforming students.

The organization GLSEN recently released state-level data … Read the rest here

My parents had pretty much formed an intervention–and my old church leaders were playing along.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged coming out Intervention Parents

As I have been reading these coming out stories I have hesitated sharing mine because it wasn’t positive. Basically, I sat my parents down and told them I had something to tell them. The tension in the room could have … Read the rest here

I was attracted girls, but only emotionally.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

This is going to be long, so bear with me…

I guess my story starts in 5th grade, although I didn’t know I was gay at the time. There was this guy in my group of friends that I had … Read the rest here

Salt Lake Gay Couple Behind Viral Wedding Proposal Become Foster Dads

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Dustin Reeser-Stout Fatherhood Gay Dads GaysWithKids Home Depot Proposal Spencer Stout

By: GaysWithKids | Gay Dad Family Stories

They’ve gone viral, appeared on Ellen, and were married by Queen Latifa. What can top all that? Fatherhood.

Over 5 years ago, you might remember seeing an amazing proposal that took place in … Read the rest here

Coming Out to His Wife Was Painful, but it Started Him on a Path of Authenticity

Posted 8 years ago Tagged family GaysWithKids MixedOrientationMarriage Moving On Salt Lake single dad

By: GaysWithKids | New York City

After Kyle Ashworth came out to his wife, with whom he has four children, “she listened, she mourned and she loved,” he said.
Kyle has four kids from a previous straight relationship. After ten … Read the rest here

The Ball Cap

Posted 8 years ago Tagged LGBT Hat Stan Mitchell

by Pastor Stan Mitchell

I wear a couple of ball caps with states stitched on them in the colors of the Pride flag. This afternoon, as I was sitting waiting to board a flight, a young man who looked to … Read the rest here

I finally did it.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

“This is my pseudo coming out story, sorry it’s a long story and does it count if I have only said it to one of my cousins?…

This is how events developed, last September on a trip to Brazil, I … Read the rest here

An Open Letter To Latter-Day Saints: When A Gay Person Shows Up At Church

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Laura Dulin Mormons

by: Laura Skaggs Dulin

Being gay/same sex attracted in the LDS church just got real…and that is saying a lot because it has been incredibly real for a long time…so what I’m really trying to say is that it just … Read the rest here

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We’ve all heard of FOMO—the fear of missing out. It’s that dinner with friends, the girls’ trip, the concert in the park. We convince ourselves that if we don’t go, everyone else is going to make memories without us, and somehow we’ll be the only one left out.

Somewhere along the way, though, I discovered JOMO: the joy of missing out.

Turns out there are quite a few things I enjoy missing. Family dinners where homophobic Uncle Hal is feeling especially inspired. Church lessons that assume every happy ending includes a husband, a wife, and 6.5 children. Family group texts that start with vacation plans and somehow end with a conference talk.

The older I get, the less interested I am in showing up out of obligation. If something continually leaves me feeling smaller, drained, or like I have to pretend to be someone else, I’m perfectly happy to let it happen without me. JOMO.

Missing out isn’t always a loss, it’s exactly where the joy is.

Try some JOMO today. You’ll love it. ❤️
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Jacinda Ardern was 25 years old, raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the small farming town of Morrinsville, New Zealand, when she found herself living in an Auckland flat with three gay men. She continued attending the Mormon church, but the contrast between the faith she had grown up in and the people she cared about became increasingly difficult to reconcile.

Years later, Ardern said she realized she was “either doing a disservice to the church or my friends,” because she could not reconcile a religion that did not fully accept LGBTQ people with the kindness and humanity she saw in those closest to her. In 2005, she left the LDS Church and has identified as agnostic ever since. Although she has spoken positively about the values of service she learned growing up Mormon, she has said the Church’s teachings on LGBTQ people ultimately became impossible for her to accept.

Ardern became New Zealand’s prime minister and many of the policies that defined her government reflected the convictions she says were shaped during that period of her life.

In 2018, Ardern became the first sitting New Zealand prime minister to participate in Auckland’s Pride Parade, cutting the ceremonial ribbon to open the event.

Her government later passed the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act, banning conversion practices. The law created criminal penalties of up to five years in prison when conversion practices cause serious harm. Parliament approved the measure by a vote of 112-8, with every vote against coming from members of the ACT Party.

Her government also enacted changes to New Zealand’s Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act, allowing transgender and non-binary New Zealanders born in the country to update the sex marker on their birth certificate through a statutory declaration rather than a Family Court process. The legislation passed Parliament unanimously without a single vote in opposition.

Despite leaving the LDS Church more than two decades ago, Ardern has not described her departure as the result of a dispute with Church leaders, and while serving as prime minister she met cordially with former Church President Russell M. Nelson during his 2019 visit to New Zealand.

Arden has consistently described her decisions as a matter of conscience, saying she could no longer reconcile the Church’s position on LGBTQ people with her own beliefs.
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