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Clarity

Posted 10 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

It has been over four years since Wendy and I found out that Jordan was gay.  Three wards, two states and a persistent search for a ward family to call home.  I have documented our experience in

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Why Pride?

Posted 10 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

The day after the news of the new LDS Church policies on gay families hit social media, I prayed.

Yes, the news was devastating to me and to so, so many in the LGBT Mormon community. In

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Emotional Distance

Posted 10 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery | www.nomorestrangers.org

Recently, I was asked to give a lesson from a Conference address in October by the new apostle Elder Renlund.  The last few lessons I have taught have been a significant struggle for me to

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IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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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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If you have to call a core part of someone "the sin" before telling them you love them, don't be so shocked when they don't experience that as love. ... See MoreSee Less

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One of the greatest scams of our youth was convincing an entire generation of teenage kids that this was the biggest threat to their future.

So many of us grew up terrified of the wrong things.
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