The past year brought many new developments, including the launch of the LDS Church’s website MORMONSANDGAYS.ORG, the Church’s amicus brief regarding Proposition 8, the new blog No More Strangers, Mormons Building Bridges and marching in gay pride parades across the US, the LDS Church pulling support from the anti-discrimination law under review in the Utah …
Speaker: Brad Carmack
“Greatly Enlarge the Sole”: LDS Corporate Governance Since 1842
Most Mormons have little understanding of the structure and governance of the LDS legal entity that receives and allocates tithing funds. In this paper, I help answer the question of “What is ‘The Church’ anyway?” by: 1. Detailing the corporate history of The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day …
Success In The Borderlands
All of us in the Borderlands of the Church must eventually face the issues of: when, to whom, and how to disclose our situation. Past studies suggest that almost all Borderlanders are in the closet to some extent and that a large share have not told their spouses the whole story. A panel of D. …
Why Mormonism Can Abide Gay Marriage
The LDS Church has publicly opposed efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Hawaii, Alaska, and California; its Proclamation on the Family declares marriage to be between a man and a woman. Nevertheless, a strong moral case for LDS same-sex marriage exists and is articulated here with 26 supporting reasons. Brad Carmack
Binding Up the Wounds: Healing Efforts Following California’s Vote on Proposition 8
Many of us are all too familiar with the damage and human cost from Proposition 8. In the years since, what efforts have been made by LDS church members, leaders, and by people of other faiths to help heal from this divisive chapter that pitted politics and religion against each other? What can straight/Mormon/religious allies …