By Doree Burt Last Sunday was the third time I walked with Mormons Building Bridges in the Utah Pride parade. It is a Sunday I look forward to, and then I mourn its passing. This year I, along with other…
There Is Room For You
by Vicki Johnson “There is room for you in this church.” For some of you this statement will resound with truth and you will agree with me, Yes! Of Course! As I am fond of saying, everything I ever needed…
Gay Marriage And My Grandmother
By John Crofts When I was a student at BYU I was given an assignment to interview my grandmother (Gay Marriage among the zillion questions). My grandmother was an amazing woman. Her mother died leaving my grandmother to raise her…
Freedom of Conscience, Christianity, and the LGBT Ordinance
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…
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…