I seethe NOT because my son is gay. I seethe because he lives in a country in which some elected officials find it politically advantageous to deny him dignity, basic rights, and protections. I seethe because there are people who preach hatred and discrimination towards gays yet claim to be "good" and "loving" Christians. I seethe because there are groups who claim to be "advocates" for the family but who work to do great harm to any family that doesn’t fit their narrow template for “normal”.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Dear Mormon Church: STOP torturing your GLBT children
Good gawd how I loathe HATE in the name of some mean, spiteful, hateful, nasty God that only loves mean, spiteful, hateful, nasty "good Christians".
I "went inactive" from the Mormon church because of cognitive dissonance. I was inactive for a long time. The final straw in my "apostate basket" was the church's involvement with anti-civil-rights legislation, first in Hawaii, later in California, and now in several other states. When that final straw hit that basket, I could no longer bear to have my name associated with such an organization, so I finally resigned my membership. Utah has one of the highest homeless teen populations in the country, and a majority (estimated 65 to 70%) are GLB kids kicked to the curb by parents who don't have the cojones to stand up to family members and church leaders in behalf of their children.
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I "went inactive" from the Mormon church because of cognitive dissonance. I was inactive for a long time. The final straw in my "apostate basket" was the church's involvement with anti-civil-rights legislation, first in Hawaii, later in California, and now in several other states. When that final straw hit that basket, I could no longer bear to have my name associated with such an organization, so I finally resigned my membership. Utah has one of the highest homeless teen populations in the country, and a majority (estimated 65 to 70%) are GLB kids kicked to the curb by parents who don't have the cojones to stand up to family members and church leaders in behalf of their children.
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