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 […]

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 […]

The Third Path: Gay, Mormon, Married
by Ron Schow
A few days ago Matt Thurston created a blog here on Sunstone called the Fourth Path: Gay, Mormon, Celibate. Matt lays out the four paths for gays in Mormondom, as he sees it, and the Third path is heterosexual marriage. I’ve been following the discussion here and I’m […]

A fascinating discussion is taking place over at Mormon Mentality with regard to recent changes made to the BYU honor code on the subject of homosexuality. Most interesting to me is the news that a group of gay BYU students took an active part in initiating and approving the changes to the honor code. […]

Last night I attended the premiere of Carol Lynn Pearson’s newest play, Facing East, presented by the Plan-B Theatre Company. It runs November 16 through November 26 at the Black Box at Rose Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake. If you have a chance, I encourage you to see it. If you have seen it, or […]

Religious History is replete with heretics or dissenters who, years later, look like prophets.  Think Galileo against the Roman Catholic Church on the subject of heliocentrism; think Orson Pratt against Brigham Young on the subject of Adam-God; think Juanita Brooks against both church leaders and fellow members on the subject of Mountain Meadows Massacre.  I […]

This podcast is an interview with John Gustav-Wrathall, author of a recent essay in Sunstone magazine titled “A Gay Mormon’s Testimony” that describes his journey out of Mormonism and then back again. He asks and gives wonderful, compassionate answers to the question of why God would lead him to leave the LDS Church and then, […]

 

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We’re excited to announce the posting of a new SunstonePodcast! In it, Emily Pearson, daughter of Gerald and Carol Lynn Pearson, reflects on the ways her life has been affected by growing up as the daughter of a gay man and then, years later, marrying one. Many SunstonePodcast listeners may know that former husband: […]

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On a chilly March morning in 2003 I was circling the track at Murray High School, listening to Steven Fales give a reading of his one-man play: Confessions of a Mormon Boy. (You may download an mp3 here.) I had just dropped off my two older children at dance class and had an hour to […]

In 1998, up here in Alaska, the Church donated half a million dollars to endorse an Alaska constitutional amendment that would effectively ban gay marriage.
Sometime during the whole ordeal, someone egged the stake center in Fairbanks. Everyone figured that it was in retaliation for the Church’s stance on the amendment. I still hear this incident […]