Passing Out Towels
(Artist: David Cohen) Yesterday, the LDS Church announced the following changes concerning youth involvement in temple rituals: “Young women (ages 12-18) with a limited-use temple recommend may assist with baptistry assignments currently performed by sister...
Mormonism’s transgender confusion
BYU-Idaho is in the news, seeking a religious exemption to Title 9 antidiscrimination laws for a transgender student who appealed to the federal government in a case of discrimination on campus. In the letter to the office of civil right in the US department of...
God Mostly Cares About the USA
There is one thing that been bugging me about the new LDS policy regarding children of gay parents being baptized (well, lots of things really). Why is it that here in Canada (and other countries for that matter; we weren’t the first) marriage equality has been...
Making Safer Spaces
I know. People don’t need yet another post about how much they dislike and disagree with the Exclusion Policy. It’s no secret that I’m upset about it, for what it’s doing to the LGBTQ Mormon community, and for what it means for children who want to be baptized at the...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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