By Matt Thurston on Jul 15, 2008 in Community, Environment, Featured, Homosexuality, Marriage, Socialization, gay | 200 Comments
Somewhere in the roiling sea of the Gay Marriage Debate – where the determined, but overmatched boats of Prophetic Proclamation, Scientific Speculation, Political Posture, and Bleeding-heart Babbling bob and weave, toss and turn – stand two immovable pillars. Like towering lighthouses, they patiently endure the pounding sea, barely taking notice of the pitching and tossing [...]
By Matt Thurston on Jun 29, 2008 in Dissent, Featured, Homosexuality, Marriage, Politics, Sunstone, gay | 194 Comments
Like 750,000 other California Mormons, I sat amongst my fellow ward members in our local chapel today as our bishop read the Preserving Traditional Marriage and Strengthening Families memo over the pulpit. He followed that by reading a memo outlining the church’s views on political neutrality. He closed by asking each of us to ponder [...]
By SunstoneBlog on Nov 12, 2007 in Homosexuality, gay, lds, mormon, mormons | 44 Comments
A new pamphlet about homosexuality appeared on the church’s website in late July, 2007. The pamphlet is entitled God Loveth His Children, and, among other things, says that the Church does not know what causes same-sex attractions but does not believe sexual abuse and sexual experimentation in childhood are responsible. It declares that same-sex [...]
