By Christopher Cooper Is it wrong to aspire to positions of leadership, or request advancements within the priesthood if you feel you have been overlooked? Active, worthy, gay members of the Church may readily advance through the mechanical steps of…
Category: Faith/Practice
An Open Letter to LDS Members and Priesthood Leaders
By Lance Irons (also published at his blog http://lanceirons.blogspot.com/) This is an open letter to all members and Priesthood Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This letter is about a Young Man that I know who is…
Prayer, Love, and Homosexuality
By Heather Longhurst (also published at her blog http://thepaintedpeacock.blogspot.com/) I have a lot of thoughts swirling around in my head that need to come out. And these thoughts are about what has become a highly sensitive and volatile issue in our…
AN OPPOSITION TO THE LDS-BACKED AMICUS BRIEF ON UTAH AMENDMENT 3
By Melissa Mayhew. (This is being republished with permission from the website bythesamesign.com. If you agree with this statement please go to the bottom of that page to add your name.) By the Same Sign? If you’ve spent any amount…
When It Comes To Equality, Which Side Of History Are You On?
By Lori Burkman (also published at RationalFaiths.com) When I look back through history, I’ve always thought that I would be the person speaking out for change if I were born into eras of oppression. I look through old pictures and choose which…
A Letter to Ward Leaders and Sunday School Instructors
By Gina Crivello A painful lesson is coming up that causes many anxiety. I hope this helps. I will be talking to my SS instructors and giving them this letter. I’d like to give credit to Matthew Vines for his…
A Remarkable Sunday—My Remarkable Daughter
By Maurie Tarbox Sunday, February 2, 2014 Sunday morning. A Sunday morning that started out like any other Sunday morning in our Utah home, but ended with an experience that will have changed me and many others. This being the…
Howard Anderson: A Compassionate Stake President & Friend of Gays
Howard Anderson, former president of the Los Angeles Stake, passed away last week. I had known Howard for a very long time. He was the President of the California Mission when I first started teaching at UCLA in 1966 during…
A Prayer for the Recent Gathering of the Eagle Forum in Utah!
By Jim Birrell Dear God, as the Eagle Forum gathers today, to incite one another from fear and to both sharpen and target their talons for (and at) their enemies—which they will assert are your enemies, too—help them, oh God,…
Strengthening and Preserving the Family
Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will directly address upcoming 2014 Church curriculum lesson material that could unnecessarily lead to editorializing on homosexuality and same-sex marriage and be hurtful to members of our community. We…