By Craig Harline ( originally posted at timesandseasons.org ) In March at BYU I gave a talk, or more accurately for a guy who can barely use Power-Point, a multi-media extravaganza, involving at least 10 non-fancy slides with absolutely nothing moving…
Month: May 2013
The Power of Empathy
By Diane Oviatt There are some in this life who would seem to be naturally endowed with the ability to readily empathize with the struggles of others. In fact, my own patriarchal blessing mentions this as a gift worth expanding…
The Gift Of The Holy Ghost & The Second Great Commandment: Implication For A Gay Mormon
By Jim Best The rock upon which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established is continuing revelation or leadership and instruction by the Spirit or Holy Ghost also called the Comforter. After baptism, each member of the…
Remarks given at the premiere of the Family Acceptance Project film “Families Are Forever”, Weber State University, May 14, 2013
Those of us here tonight are the first circle of support for the Family Acceptance Project. This film is beautifully affirming of what we already know: that research tells us how to drastically lower the incidence of risky behaviors in…
A Story of Shame (A Bad Experience with One Stake President, and a Good Experience with Another)
By Loren Evans A story of shame… Back in the late ’80’s I lived with my family in downtown Salt Lake City. Not long after moving there our 3 month old daughter died. The best the medical establishment could tell…
Closets are for Clothes
By Jake Abhau (this post was originally posted at his blog http://theabhaus.blogspot.ca/ ) About two months ago, our 13 year old son, Jon, came to us and informed us that he was gay. He knows it. We know it. And there is…
Everything Made Right
(also posted at youngstranger.blogspot.ca) I’m so proud of my state right now. About two years ago, after a Republican dominated Minnesota legislature put an anti-gay-marriage amendment on the ballot, Grant Stevensen, the pastor of Spirit of Truth Faith Community, said to…
HPV Vaccination: Protecting your Gay Mormon Son
Some time in the months preceding the Summer of 2012, the Utah County Health Department threw away hundreds of doses of the Gardasil (HPV) vaccine because these doses had expired due to “lack of demand.” A few blocks away at…
HPV Vaccine: Do What’s Right For Your Daughters And Your Sons!
This is the first in a series about HPV vaccine. Tomorrow Cary Crall will focus on a discussion of Gay Mormon Men and HPV vaccine. ————————————– I am going to speak as a doctor here, on how we are denying…
FROM MOTHERS ON THE GIFT OF HAVING A GAY CHILD
I am blessed to receive almost daily emails from parents who are struggling with or celebrating the fact of learning that they have a gay child. In honor of Mother’s Day, I would like to share anonymously two emails recently…