Church PR Defames Its Own Website
This week in a BYU Provo marketing class of several hundred students, an employee of the LDS Church PR department came as a guest speaker on branding. He pulled up a website concerning showing love towards gay people and called it an “evil and faith-destroying...
“Mormon Women Stand”…On Shaky Science
By Dr. Mikle South, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brigham Young University In the past couple of days, a number of friends have asked for my opinion on a recent blogpost from Mormon Women Stand (MWS) entitled “Groundbreaking Research on Sexual...
What Mormonism Can Be: A Gay Couple’s Story
The Manoa Ward was our spiritual home for several years. At the end of our last sacrament meeting in the ward, the bishopric invited Spencer and me to join them on the stand. The entire congregation stood up and sang “Aloha Oe” to us. I buried my face in my hands and...
Scoring Points or Saving Lives?
According to a story in the Salt Lake Tribune on August 8th, “Brigham Young University’s intolerance of homosexual behavior should keep the private school out of the Big 12, a group of national LGBT advocacy groups says in a letter addressed to Big 12...
We Thought Love Would Be Enough
A poem that observes the limits of communities and institutions in being willing or able to include the suffering and even the existence of those who find themselves on the margins of their borders. Dedicated in particular to those who are grieving in the wake of...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.
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