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Coming Out | Our Magical Unicorn

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out family Gay kids Parents

My coming out, probably like many of yours, did not go too well. My parents, specifically my mother, were not at all accepting of the idea. And for 6+ years afterwards, things were said to me that no child should … Read the rest here

Coming Out | It Was The Best For All of Us

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out family LDS Church Lesbian

We all have our story that has brought us here. Social community groups like Latter Gay Stories are so valuable to those who are looking for help, suggestions, friends and maybe more importantly a community where we don’t feel so … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Tomorrow You’ll Be Older Than Today

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Authenticity coming out Late Bloomer Temple Marriage

My coming out story is somewhat unique. After a little over 20 years of marriage and two children, I decided to be true to myself and come out to my friends and family. Admitting to my wife that I was … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Enough For Me

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Happy Place LDS Church

From the time I could dress myself, I was always less interested in feminine clothes. At church I would complain about having to wear dresses, and asking my parents why I couldn’t wear pants like my brothers. I just chalked … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Do-Over

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay God LDS Church Mixed Orientation Marriage Sexuality Temple

How many times have we looked back into our past and wanted a do-over? For me, one big event that I want to do-over is the coming out process. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to un-do my coming … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Kurt

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Active Latter-day Saint coming out Mormon

I started wearing this rainbow heart pin to church before Covid-19 shut the doors to my church. It’s a reminder to me of never going back into the lonely dark closet I lived in most of my life. It’s also … Read the rest here

Coming Out | My Shameful Stain

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Mormon Guilt LDS Missionary Shame

I am fortunate to have the opportunity to come out in today’s social environment. I cannot imagine how much more difficult it would have been to come out 40, 50 or even 10 years ago. Society has become so much … Read the rest here

Coming Out | “Cool, because I am asexual!”

Posted 6 years ago Tagged asexual coming out family

Thinking back to the time in life when I was closeted now seems so weird! Who was I back then? The only person people knew me as was the image I had created for them. That person wasn’t me though. … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Would I Wreck the Celestial Plan of Salvation for Our Family?

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Gay Child Mormon Plan of Salvation Son

Growing up I was very fortunate to have a family that was really gay friendly. We were not the typical Latter-day Saint family. My dad’s job allowed us to travel around the country, giving us the opportunity to live in … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Love I Never Had

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Lesbian Lesbian Mormon Mixed Orientation Marriage

Four years ago, I sat in St. James Cathedral in downtown Seattle and begged God to show me what to do. Here I was a gay woman, married to a man for the past 20 years, with four kids who … 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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