By Sam Noble (admin note: this mother’s day speech does not mention LGBT specifically, but it brings up points that are very relevant to LGBT couples) Asking questions is one of the most crucial parts of spiritual learning and progression.…
Category: Family issues
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…
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…
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…
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…
Loyalty in Marriage
By Keith Penrod I just read a story about a man wanting a divorce because he had fallen in love with a lady with whom he had been having an affair. When he told his wife, she asked him to…
The Gaydy Bunch Part 2
By Esteban Cencerrado Lee-O’Neal An interesting part of this whole life change was overcoming my own programmed homophobia. I was so excited to meet Rex and to move into a new relationship, while at the same time feeling twinges of…
The Gaydy Bunch Part 1
By Esteban Cencerrado Lee-O’Neal When my exwife and I finally faced the last hurdle of our 16 year marriage, it would be the final straw. Even after 12 years in Evergreen, the church’s comnversion therapy program, even after marriage counseling…
A Mormon Boy’s Mission to Save His Father
By Jefferson Cloward I was told my father was gay when I was 10 years old. My mom wanted to tell me and my brother before spending a few weeks with my dad and his side of the family to…