Ron Schow

RON SCHOW is a professor of audiology in the College of Health Profes￾sions at Idaho State University. He co-edited with his brother, Wayne Schow, and Marybeth Raynes Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991), honored by an award from the Association of Mor￾mon Arts and Letters. He helped found and is a board member of a support group, Family Fellowship, for LDS families with a member of same-sex orienta￾tion. In 1994, he and Marybeth organized the first of several conferences on ho￾mosexuality at the University of Utah, which were jointly sponsored by Family Fellowship. He has co-authored with Marybeth and former bishops Robert A. Rees and William Bradshaw a booklet, A Guide for Latter-day Saint Families Deal￾ing with Homosexual Attraction (Salt Lake City: Resources for Understanding Ho￾mosexuality, 2002), under contract for distribution by Deseret Book.