Creative Dissent: Responses to the LGBT Policy Change
Background for those unfamiliar with the LGBT policy: On November 5, 2015, the LDS church instituted a policy regarding LGBT members and their children. Same-sex married couples are now labeled “apostates” and face mandatory church discipline, with...
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...
I Loved As I Was Asked.
We shall call him Justin, he has so many names. He came to Earth to show us, each of us has a flame. His extinguished early, sixteen is too young to die. The pain he felt, from beliefs untrue, was the reason why. God made him whole, blessed with many gifts, and asked...Do Your Duty (Lament of Nephi Johnson)
Q: “Had any person ever been injured for not obeying?” Johnson: “Yes, sir; they had.” Q: “And from what you had seen before that, you thought it was your duty, under the circumstances, to obey counsel, or commands given you by...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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