[…] just a few years after The Family Proclamation, Gary Watts wrote, “The Logical Next Step: Affirming Same -Sex Relationships.” He notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their […]
[…] what I consider the darkness of our understanding about homosexuality. I speak to you as one Latter -day Saint follower of Christ who has tried, through study, thought, and prayer, to comprehend what it […]
[…] These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same -sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same–sex marriage were an option.
[…] large, not religious. One of my earliest memories is walking home from school with Ricky, my next -door neighbor and playmate. We were just coming up on the gate that connected the schoolyard to […]
[…] within eight western states since February 2015. Using an old portrait lens from 1907 and 5×7 Tri -X film, Anderson makes AZO contact prints in a darkroom. Her goal is to show these women […]
[…] a Christian and as a reasonable citizen. From a Rawlsian standpoint, there are reasons to support same -sex marriage even if one believes same–sex marriage is wrong from a religious perspective. The problem of […]
A decade from now, same -sex marriage will likely be the law in a majority of states. Given the domino effect of legislatures embracing a cause that has successfully claimed the mantle of equality, […]
The hard -fought campaign over Proposition 8, which in November 2008 rescinded the legal right to marriage for same–sex couples in California, is evidence of an important political success for religious conservative political groups […]
[…] native, I have a stake in my home state’s politics, especially on social issues such as same -sex marriage. I was living in Pasadena, California, in 2000 when Proposition 22, defining marriage as being […]
I don’t live in California, and so the questions of what I thought of Proposition 8 and of my Church’s involvement in it were never presented to me with any more force than that […]