On the 4th of July, let’s celebrate our liberty while remembering that “Love will beget tolerance and kindness” by Tom Christofferson A member of the Affirmation Board of Directors, Tom Christofferson lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his partner of sixteen…
History, Part 4 of 8: Escaping the “Gay Lifestyle” a Very Happy Man
By Scot, (a father, husband and gay Utahn) Now I was a gay kid on a mission ;-). I started going to Quaker meetings that were only meant to find ways to keep gay kids from suicide. I stopped looking for…
My Integrity Won’t Allow Ignorance (A Mormon Daughter on Having Gay Father)
By Hannah Stewart (also published at her personal blog and at feministmormonhousewives.org) A lingering question that takes up a lot of thought and pondering in my mind is how much of my real life to filter. Sometimes I want to…
Allies, Boy Scouts, Changing attitudes, Coming out, Doctrine/Theology, Faith/Practice, Family issues, Marriage Equality, Proposition 8, Reconciliation work, Spirituality, Youth issues
The Victoria Theater
The journey of my family since my son came out last year has been a roller coaster ride of highs and lows. The spiritual, intellectual and emotional investment required to make sense and find peace between two polarizing worlds…
LDS v. USA: Mormonism in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage
By Taylor Petrey (also posted at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople) In a newspaper interview in 1994, Marty Baudet, the executive director of Affirmation, the flagship gay Mormon support group, said: “I predict society will acknowledge gay rights and, 20 years down the road, the church will…
Salvaging Our Humanity (and our Faith) from the Wreckage of Politics
Anybody who has been following the progress of Proposition 8 through the courts knew that the least likely outcome of the Supreme Court decision would be the one officially hoped for in the amicus brief filed by the Church, i.e.,…