A Queer(er) Mormonism

Just when we thought the Romneys’ exeunt might take the spotlights off, the Church thrust itself right back into center stage last week with MormonsandGays.org. Headlines in news publications asked if this site signified an eventual change in the church’s policy, and members pondered the significance of an active and obvious–if chaste– LGBTQ community within the body of the church itself.

Some of the headlines are a little overblown: after all, very little here is different from what we heard unofficially in the aftermath of Prop 8, which is that despite the church’s stance on same-sex attraction, members should love and embrace our brothers, sisters, and children no matter their sexual attraction. For a twentysomethinglike myself, to whom previous generations’ history of ‘pray the gay away’ programs and the encouragement to marry at all costs remain largely that—history–, looking at this site is something of a ‘duh’ moment. God bless a short memory.

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