"'A happy gay Mormon.' That's the shorthand I often e to scribe myself," wr Tom Christofferson. "Some of my gay iends—as well as some of the LDS...
Contents:
- GAY MORMON DAD
- GAY MORMONS
- A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON
- A GAY MORMON MISSN: A CONVERSATN WH JOHNNY TOWNSEND
- A STORY WHICH THE GAY MORMON DO NOT DIE
- BOOK EXPLOR WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY AND MORMON
- “GAY MORMONS?” A REVIEW
GAY MORMON DAD
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Chad Anrson grew up gay a large Mormon fay. After years of tryg to nform to relig standards, which promised a cure for homosexualy, he married and had children before fally g out of the closet. Gay Mormon Dad is his story of fally learng to love himself a plited world.
203 pag, Kdle EdnPublished January 8, 2018About the thorRatgs & ReviewsFriends & Followg Communy ReviewsDisplayg 1 - 2 of 2 reviewsFebary 4, 2019Father to Father, Man to Man, Gay Mormon Mormon Dad is an spirg look at the journey of untls men.
"I read "Gay Mormon Dad" nstantly asssg s ntents agast my own valu and experience but also as a book to be read by straight fay and iends. Chad don't create a pretty picture of gay bliss nor one of bld hate for the Mormon fah. I look forward to readg 21, 2018Very good book to ga a better unrstandg of gay issu Mormon society.
GAY MORMONS
Gay Mormons are enuraged to rema celibate, as are all other sgle members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. * gay mormon books *
The doctre of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which church is often mistakenly lled the Mormon Church, is que clear on the practice of homosexualy.
A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON
“Homosexual activy is a ser s. Mormon doctre clar homosexual activy a s not bee is bigoted and old fashned, but bee the practice of homosexualy trat the eternal purpose of the fay.
To have feelgs of homosexualy is not a s, but a stggle.
A GAY MORMON MISSN: A CONVERSATN WH JOHNNY TOWNSEND
Any gay Mormon who has the stggl still has a choice of whether or not to act on those feelgs. The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and s members ntu to, and will ntue to, receive a great al of cricism and persecutn for s view on homosexualy. Th, the LDS Church’s view on the practice of homosexualy will never change.
Bee the world already has a liberal view on sexualy and do not thk a great al of the practice of sex before marriage, views the LDS Church’s views towards gay Mormons as expectatns which are far too high.
A STORY WHICH THE GAY MORMON DO NOT DIE
“It is neher fair, nor realistic” the world says, “to expect a person who has homosexual attractns to rema celibate for their entire liv. The stggl of homosexual attractn for gay Mormons are, admtedly, very hard.
Gay Mormons should not feel any shame for their feelgs, but they should turn to the Savr for His help and strength to overe all temptatns—whether those temptatns are related to homosexualy or not—and have fah that He will help them overe.
BOOK EXPLOR WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY AND MORMON
LDS Church Pamphlet on Homosexualy: “God Loveth His Children“. But at the age of thirteen, he began to be faced wh an omo fact: that he was gay. It wasn’t until after leavg the Church my early 20s – for reasons more related to my journey as a gay man than for reasons related to the historicy of the Book of Mormon – that I was exposed to some of the historil problems related to the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon, Amerin Christiany, and the Gay Mormon Prediment. It has been poted out that the Book of Mormon says nothg explic about homosexualy. ) The “Topil Gui” published wh the current, official standard works of the LDS Church lists one Book of Mormon reference the sectn unr “Homosexualy” (2 Nephi 13: 9), but the reference listed is actually a quotatn of Isaiah 3: 9, which merely referenc, whout elaboratn, “their s as Sodom.
There’s no evince that what is actually beg discsed the passage ced 2 Nephi has anythg at all to do wh homosexualy. This might actually be of fort to gay men and lbians who so equently have been the victims of harsh, unfair judgments, and who have – morn tim pecially – been equently “st out of our synagogu” (Alma 32: 9).
“GAY MORMONS?” A REVIEW
Of greater fort and signifince to me as a gay man is the Book of Mormon’s wns regardg the active role God plays the liv of his children. When 15-year-old Alex Cooper me out to her vout Mormon fay, they drove her om the fay home a Southern California suburb to an unlicensed -home treatment program whose proprietors, fellow Mormons, promised they uld help Alex change om gay to straight.
And when she did not yield to a treatment regime centered around hoework and group scripture study, she was ma to wear a backpack full of rocks reprentg the “burn of her homosexualy” and stand facg the wall for hours on end. As important as is to tell the dark tth about nversn therapy, is jt a important that Alex’s story has a happy endg: she mak a urageo pe, fds alli, fights a historic urt battle to go home unr the protectn of the law as a gay teenager, rn wh her now acceptg fay, fish school, and mov to Portland to start a new life wh her girliend.