By Jill Hazard Rowe Our first really cold day in Utah. As I lay here in my warm bed and listen to the hurling winds outside my mind is wandering to the five thousand homeless youth in Salt Lake City.…
Category: Youth issues
lgbt youth issues
LDS LGBT SUICIDE & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS DAY
A gay Mormon teen (age 16) writes an essay for English class
by Kayden Maxwell Hero Journey There is an indescribable feeling when you grow up expecting your life to follow a very defined path, and everyone around you follows the same formula for a happy life, but one day you wake…
A BYU professor writes an editorial for The Daily Universe
by Roni Jo Draper, Ph.D BYU education professor BYU has again been ranked as the No. 1 Stone Cold Sober school. That’s cool. Sobriety deserves celebration. BYU has also been ranked as the No. 4 LGBTQ Unfriendliest school. This should give…
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…
A Mother Gives a Message to Her Ward
I was TERRIFIED. I had to lock my knees so they would stop shaking. I’m sure if you put a microphone up to my chest, my heart would have sounded like a jackhammer. But it had been on my mind…
It’s a bit dusty around here–a father discusses his journey with his gay teen son
By Greg Searle (also published at his blog http://gsearle.blogspot.com/) Wow, nothing here for the last 4+ years. That’s real dedication I tell you. I guess I took a break from this technology and engaged in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. for a time so…
From One Broken Saint To Another: The Messages We Give our Youth
By Kalani Tonga Tukuafu (also published at Feminist Mormon Housewives blog under the title ‘Why “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” Doesn’t Work for Me’ http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2014/03/why-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin-doesnt-work-for-me/) These days, there is much ado about modesty rhetoric. People hotly debate both sides of the issue,…
Church talk 3.9.2014 — A Mother’s Journey
Church talk by Tammy Hinkley given 3.9.2014 Thanks for making me feel so welcome in your ward when I have not been very active in it. Many of you have visited me and brought me things. This has meant a…
Letter to a Gay Mormon Teen in Arizona
These events of the last 2 days have surely jolted you, and have forced you to leave the innocence of your childhood behind. For the first time in your life, you realize that people hate you. Not for anything that…