SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - Jan 12
2015
Researchers surveyed 1,612
LGBT/same-sex attracted members and former members of the LDS Church.
LDS Pro same-sex marriage ad from Utah
Unites for Marriage — The Bradshaws
Same-sex marriage would strengthen Utah, new ad campaign says
LGBT advocacy » The TV ads, launching this week, will emphasize marriage as a legal and civil right.
Salt Lake Tribune - April 06, 2014
William and Marge Bradshaw have five children and 18 grandchildren.
They’ve been together ever since they met on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In a television ad campaign set to launch this
week, the couple tell viewers that their son — a gay man — deserves that
kind of life.
In the ads, sponsored by the same-sex marriage
advocacy group Utah Unites for Marriage, the Bradshaws share their
story, and their family, in hopes of convincing others that allowing gay
and lesbian couples to marry would strengthen, not harm, the state.
"A marriage is a bond between two people based
in love and commitment," William Bradshaw says. "Allowing civil
marriages will be a good thing for Utah."
(NO
LDS Excommunication:
"Silence is Consent")
Will all those who claim
to know Jesus be surprised when He denies knowing you?
America boasts a Christian
population of around 80%, and there are over 400 thousand evangelical pastors
leading churches, big and small, across the United States. Despite such
demographics, we are bearing witness to one of the most insidious waves of
apostasy this country has ever seen. Open rebellion and treachery against the
Lord abounds in our daily lives, from tolerance, acceptance and even our
embracement of evil deeds and behavior.
As a nation, we have turned
our backs on Jesus and God almighty, using the pretext of tolerance as we
embrace the lies our hearts have conceived. Despite such actions, we claim to
be Christians…When a nation forgets God, judgment follows.
When man claims to know Jesus but fears not the Lord,
there is no refuge from His judgment.
Dictionary:
Silence gives
consent.
If you do not object to what someone says or does, you can be assumed to
agree with or condone it.
LDS Church does NOT consider Same-Sex Attraction a SIN...
Gay (fag) Mormon shares his journey
back to faith, awaits conference
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - May 27,
2014 - …In most ways, Tom Christofferson’s spiritual journey was not unlike
that of many gay Mormons.
Christofferson grew up in a
close-knit LDS family, attended Brigham Young University, served a Mormon
mission to Canada, and then married a woman. (The marriage didn’t last more
than a few months.)
His family, which includes a brother, LDS apostle D. Todd Christofferson, continued to love him without
reservation, Tom Christofferson
said last month in a speech in Arizona.
"Quite soon after I came
out, [my parents] took an opportunity to express to my brothers and their wives
their determination that nothing would be allowed to break the circle of love
that binds all of us together as a family. As they expressed it, while none of
us is perfect as individuals, we can be perfect in our unconditional love for
each other."
…Christofferson also is a board member of
the support group Affirmation — LGBT Mormons, Families and Friends.
LDS Missionary Training
Center president admits to asking a young missionary to expose her breasts in the ’80s, BYU police say
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - 3/22/2018
A former president of the LDS
Missionary Training Center has admitted that he took a young woman into a small
room at the Provo campus in 1984 and asked to see her breasts, according to a
report released Wednesday by Brigham Young University police.
Harry Reid not a
worthy Mormon?
LDS Church, Dems cry foul
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - Nov 07
2014
In the aftermath of this
week’s elections, an LDS bishop in Los Angeles set off political fireworks by
asserting in a blog that Mormon Sen. Harry Reid was not worthy to enter one of
the faith’s temples for his support of Democratic Party stances…"Members
of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints are, of course, entitled to express their own
political opinions," spokesman
Dale Jones said in a statement. "However, publishing such views
while using a title of a church officer, even if only as a leader of a local
congregation as in this case, is
entirely inappropriate." LDS bishop Mark Paredes conceded Friday
that, in retrospect, he could have worded his concerns about Reid, a fellow
believer, "more artfully."
Writing on his long-standing blog at the Jewish Journal, Paredes began by describing one
of the "temple recommend" questions (meant to gauge adherence to
Mormon beliefs and practices) that asks members if they "support,
affiliate with or agree with any group or individual whose teachings or
practices are contrary to or oppose those accepted by the [LDS Church]." He
then detailed his beliefs that Democrats’ support for same-sex marriage,
gambling and abortion
rights was in opposition to the church’s positions on those
issues.
Seattle Mormon leaders
to gays:
You are valued — worship with
us
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - Oct 17, 2014
In an extraordinary move, the
Washington Park LDS Ward in Seattle is opening its arms to Mormon gays and
lesbians in the area.
These LDS congregational
leaders recently sent a letter to "less-active members within the ward
boundaries" inviting them to a church sacrament meeting Sunday, Oct. 19.
The letter acknowledged that
participating in worship in the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints…The
letter further assured lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members that
their experiences were valuable to the Mormon community…
Mitch Mayne — an openly gay Mormon who helped train local leaders alongside his former bishop, Don
Fletcher, in how to welcome LGBT members in San Francisco — is pleased with the
Seattle effort and its participants.
He told The Salt Lake Tribune
the message of the meeting is as important for straight Mormons as it is for
the LGBT community.
The little gay-marriage case in
Utah that roared & made (FAG)
history
Derek Kitchen’s name will
live on in law books — along with his partner’s — as three plaintiff couples
who brought down Utah’s Amendment 3 and propped up same-sex unions across the
nation.
LDS Church Official Statement on Homosexuality (Must Read)
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LDS CHURCH DEFENDS GAYS & TRANSGENDER RIGHTS...TIMELINE: