tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154066149083198636.post3213084868924686502..comments2019-06-07T12:00:23.797-07:00Comments on Wildflowers~: Emily: A Threat To Whose Marriage?Emily Pearsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05575512268402382364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154066149083198636.post-8890043101510707202008-10-20T17:31:00.000-07:002008-10-20T17:31:00.000-07:00"continuing to believe that homosexuality is somet..."continuing to believe that homosexuality is something that can and should be healed." <BR/><BR/> I've never believed that homosexuality could be healed. The word itself is dichotomous, don't you think? Describes the person's feelings, <EM>and</EM> their behvior. The feelings may never be taken away- just like many people's burdens never are. But just like anyone living with burdens, "gay people" are also responsible for their <EM>actions-</EM> do you disagree?<BR/> <BR/>I think the key to knowing where you stand on this issue is knowing where God stands on the issue of a man sleeping with another man. For me, that's an easy one.<BR/><BR/>Why do you think that acceptance of those <EM>actions</EM> which me, and most people believe are sinful, will have no affect on the community? Since when was a majority of people being forced to tolerate sinful acts ever good?<BR/><BR/>To "anonymous" up there, your husband- was he ex-communicated for his feelings or for his actions?Summerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13071001502153335944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154066149083198636.post-56941775929483322902008-10-13T10:10:00.000-07:002008-10-13T10:10:00.000-07:00Talk to the children. Talk to my children. Ask the...Talk to the children. Talk to my children. Ask them how it feels to be the unwitting pawn in the game of Hide-and-Don't-Seek-in-the-LDS-Closet. Turns out the man who taught them to value truth above all else had been lying to them, to me for their entire lives. <BR/>Why?<BR/>Because The Brethren told him to.<BR/>Because he wanted to be straight.<BR/>Because he wanted to be "normal".<BR/><BR/>Given the horrific numbers of wives and children who have endured/now endure/will endure sexual abuse at the hands of str8 LDS fathers, uncles, brothers, friends, The Church has far too much dirty sexual laundry in its own Closet to be beating the drum and filling the political coffers of the Prop. 8 idiocy.<BR/><BR/>Bad behavior is bad behavior: gay or straight. Pedophiles and abusers, if men, are nearly always given a "pass", a slap on the hand, possible disfellowship, while the victim is victimized again by the very organization who should provide every possible protection. <BR/><BR/>The "threat to the family" in our home wasn't the fact that my former husband was and is gay. The "threat" was the power The Church had over someone who wanted help, wanted direction, wanted compassion, wanted acceptance. Instead, The Church sent him and tens of thousands of other gay men off to "marry and have children".<BR/>Thank you, Brethren. Thank you for the part you played in destroying so much of what we treasured as a family. Thank you for sacrificing me, my sisters in this Gospel Family, our children, at the altars of temples all over the globe.<BR/><BR/>I will take responsibility for the choices I've made in this life.<BR/>I hope that you are all prepared to be responsible for the pain your choices have caused, for no apparent reason other than ignorance.<BR/><BR/>Make no mistake. My faith is not now, nor ever was shaken by this. My belief in "inspired leaders" is no longer blind. <BR/><BR/>Ask a child.<BR/>Children listen.<BR/>Children are now asking and will continue to ask "where were you"?<BR/><BR/>You should be ashamed.<BR/>I believe that there are a few loving leaders who have tried and failed at teaching the rest the message of compassion; separating orientation from behavior. Thank you for your bravery.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps there is a David O. McKay amongst The Brethren. Perhaps he will eventually "ask" and The Answer will come forth. <BR/><BR/>Given the divorce rate in the straight world, even in the LDS Church, something is very much amiss.<BR/><BR/>If the allowance for two people, regardless of orientation, saves one family from the heartache we experienced, it is worth making the change.<BR/><BR/>Thank you to the San Diego Saints who decided to NOT put their $$$ where they were told.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com