By Wayne Schow This op-ed piece appeared in the Idaho State Journal on Sunday, May 4. Subsequently, in a referendum vote on May 20 Pocatellans narrowly defeated the effort to rescind the anti-discrimination ordinance. The population of Pocatello is roughly…
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Identi-ME
By Jake Taylor Introduction: Tony Kushner raises many issues of identity within his play, Angels in America. The play focuses on Prior’s struggle to deal with the disease to which he has succumbed. Nevertheless, the story follows several other characters…
Summoned and Unsettled: Gay Mormons and the Power of the Face of Love
by Jacob Baker (also published at RationalFaiths.com) Renowned Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) spent much of his life thinking about how and why we relate or fail to relate to others. A French Jewish prisoner of war during World War II, Levinas…
Our Mothers Knew It
by Bryan Hendrickson Alma 56:47-48 47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by…
I Found God in the LGBTQ Community.
By Lance Irons (also published at his blog http://lanceirons.blogspot.com/) I have been thinking about writing this post for a while. Since my coming out I have truly experienced an outpouring of love and support of which I am tremendously grateful. My…
Inspired Events: How A Negative Sunday School Experience Becomes a Beautiful Mormon Experience
By Kathryn Hueth (a proud mama dragon) The Sunday prior to Christmas 2013 will be forever remembered because of an experience we had at church. After returning home, having had time to calm down and share feelings with my family,…
Mormon Leader Says Speech is a Threat to Speech
By Thomas McAffee (also published at his blog http://thomasmcaffee.com/) It has become a theme of conservative religionists that there is a frightening new trend toward demonizing religious thought and expression and that this trend actually presents a significant threat to religious…
A 12 year old Mormon girl’s response when her brother comes out to her
By Brooklynn Blair (Proud Baby Sister Dragon) America is living with segregation. But not racial segregation, segregation based on sexual orientation. People treat them different, call them names, and act like they’re not human. Isn’t that exactly how they treated…
A Petition for Kindness
By Lorian Dunlop (originally published at feministmormonhousewives.org) I was driving home from dropping my daughter at school this morning. When I passed the local park, I saw a sign by the road inviting people to come to the parking lot…
An Indignant Cop
By Nik Rasheta (also published at http://theabhaus.blogspot.com/) In April 2012 the police department that I work for announced that it was going to allow uniformed officers to March in the Phoenix Gay Pride Parade. Officers everywhere around me were upset with…