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{LDSL Blog} Talking About Same-sex Attraction
Mormon Life says: In our May/June 2012 issue, we published an article about same-sex attraction that has evoked a wide range of responses. Here’s why we chose to do it.
The decision to publish an article about same-sex attraction in LDS Living was not made lightly. To be honest, I lost a fair amount of sleep over this story wondering how it would be received...
Living with Same-sex Attraction: Our Story
Mormon Life says: In 2003, Ty Mansfield wrote an essay for a class at BYU about how he—a member of the LDS Church who has experienced same-sex attraction—had found peace through the gospel of Jesus Christ. That essay resulted in a book, In Quiet Desperation, that made Ty's private struggle public. In 2011 he published an anthology on the same topic, Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction.
Editor's note: Same-sex attraction is a sensitive and complex issue. We feel it is important to try to understand how we can better meet the needs of friends, family, and Church members...
Relating to Your Son or Daughter Experiencing Same-gender Attraction: Advice to Parents
Mormon Life says: In conjunction with today's featured article, "Our Story: Living with Same-sex Attraction" by Ty and Danielle Mansfield (click here to read), we offer this excerpt specifically for LDS parents of children who experience homosexual feelings.
The following is an excerpt from Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction, taken from the chapter “Perspectives for Parents.” Click here to learn more.ListeningAs we...
BYU groups seek to understand students with same-sex attraction
A video released last week in which BYU students discuss dealing with same-gender attraction and their membership in the LDS Church gathered some momentum in the university community Friday as friends shared it and linked to it on Facebook and YouTube. The video was made by an unofficial group...
Colliding Causes: Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Mormon Life says: It would seem non-discrimination is more important religious beliefs.
Scrolling through her e-mail inbox on a fall day in 2006, photographer Elaine Huguenin opened a new message from a potential client expecting to rattle off prices, extra travel fees and proofing...
Mormons Will Continue to Stand for Traditional Marriage
On occasion I've heard active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Mormons) when discussing the issue of same-sex marriage, share the opinion that they believe the church will eventually accept it and, like other periods of LDS Church history, will be found to have been on...
LDS Church responds to Prop 8 ruling
Mormon Life says: What a sad day for both the sanctity of marriage and our country's judicial system.
Shortly after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling that California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Gay GOP presidential candidate hopes to target LDS Church in debate
Mormon Life says: We'll just have to wait and see if this actually happens.
The Los Angeles Times ran a profile today on Fred Karger, the gay-rights activist who is a Republican candidate for president. In the piece, "The Los Angeles Times's Mark Z. Barabak highlights the...
Church joins other faiths to protect marriage
The LDS Church joined a diversity of faiths this week in signing "The Protection of Marriage: A Shared Commitment," an open letter affirming a commitment to preserve marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Released Monday in the nation's capitol, the document bore 26 signatures of...
Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet
Last week, I reported here at RD that copies of the new LDS Church Handbook of Instructions, a two-volume, 400-page tome detailing Church doctrines, policies, and procedures (call it a Mormon Talmud) previously reserved only for local and regional Church leaders had been leaked on the Internet...
Church Explains Media Coverage of Handbook Changes
Mormon Life says: The Church explains how changes made in the handbook (specifically about homosexuality) could have been reported more appropriately. Agreed.
Veteran newsman Ted Koppel, in a Washington Post opinion piece this morning, laments the passing of what he calls “a long-gone era of television journalism, when the networks considered the...
Many Utahns think homosexuality can be overcome
Mormon Life says: The poll found that 55 percent of Mormon respondents believe it's possible to change same-sex attractions compared with 20 percent of non-Mormon respondents.
Forty-four percent of Utahns agree with President Boyd K. Packer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that it's possible for homosexuality to be overcome, according to a statewide poll...
Pres. Uchtdorf weighs in on same-sex attraction
Mormon Life says: Pres. Uchtdorf addressed this hot topic during a regional conference on Sunday.
Mormons may not know until the hereafter what causes same-sex attraction, but “God loves all his children” and expects everyone to do the same, an LDS Church leader said Sunday. While the message...
