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Former Latter-day Saint Bishop Shares 4 Ways We Can Show Respect for LGBTQ Members

Posted 7 years ago Tagged LDS Church LGBT Richard Ostler

When we interact with our LGBTQ members in the Church, are we showing them the respect they deserve as fellow brothers and sisters in the gospel?

Previous Latter-day Saint bishop and advisory board member … Read the rest here

David Matheson, complicity, and walking away

Posted 7 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

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14 hours ago

The church has always had a very clear narrative about gay people and gay families.

They preach about how we are broken. That we struggle. That our homes are unstable. That our relationships are “counterfeit”. That our families don’t contribute to society. That something awful is always waiting at the end of our story. That blessings are withheld and heaven is closed.

But I’ve also noticed something more profound—they don’t have a narrative when we defy their expectations.

They can’t explain gay people who are happy. The couples who are steady and strong. The families who are loving. The homes that are structured, safe, faithful, funny, ordinary, and full of life.

Churches built an entire theology around what they said we would become. And then we went and became something else.

Maybe that’s the part they struggle with most. Because it’s not our “attractions” that are the struggle, it’s your fake narrative against us. ... See MoreSee Less

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16 hours ago

BOISE, IDAHO—One year ago, Idaho gave us one of Pride Month’s most beautiful accidents: the “Hetero Awesomeness Festival.”

It was supposed to be straight pride. A bold celebration of heterosexual greatness. A cultural reset for the cargo-shorts community and instead, it drew roughly enough people to fill a slow Tuesday night karaoke bar, got mocked across the internet, and then somehow became even more embarrassing when the attendees started punching each other over mistaken identity.

Imagine planning an entire festival to prove straight people are doing fine, then ending it with low attendance, bad vibes, and a fist fight between the very people who showed up to support you?! 😂😂

Meanwhile, Pride gets parades, music, families, drag queens, community, visibility, and joy. Straight Pride got tens of people and a parking lot scuffle.

Happy anniversary to Idaho’s Hetero Awesomeness Festival: overpromised, under-attended, and still the funniest argument against itself. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 days ago

People love to yell “biology” when what they really mean is the best they have to argue with is the simplified version they learned before they were old enough to drive—yeah, middle school.

XX and XY are part of the story, but they are not the whole story.

Human development involves chromosomes, hormones, receptors, genes, anatomy, fetal development, puberty, and variations that do not fit neatly into the two boxes people keep trying to force everyone into.

And when people say everything outside of XX or XY, “those are just genetic disorders” or “freakish anomalies,” they are not making the point they think they are. Those “disorders” are more common than people with red hair.

A genetic disorder is still biology. A rare variation is still biology. A body that develops differently is still a human body.

The point is not that most people are XX or XY. The point is that XX and XY do not explain every human body.

So when someone calls LGBTQ people “mentally ill,” “delusional,” or “freaks,” they are not defending science. They are exposing the personal limits of what they understand—and know.

Rare does not mean unreal. Medical classification does not mean moral defect. And “disorder” does not mean someone’s existence can be dismissed.

The real world is more complicated than middle school biology.

That does not make people broken.

It means the your lessons (and knowledge) about biology and the miracles of the human body are wildly incomplete. ... See MoreSee Less

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Former Latter-day Saint Bishop Shares 4 Ways We Can Show Respect for LGBTQ Members

David Matheson, complicity, and walking away

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