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Gay Mormon LDS Reconciliation and Utah Pride
By admin | May 31, 2009
For the past five years LDS Reconciliation has participated in Utah Pride with a booth and a Missionary Map allowing men and women gay, lesbian, straight and narrow to put a pin in the map showing where they served their missions. The very first year the map was put up significantly more than 500 Utah Pride attendees put a pin in the map. This number has grown significantly over the years.
This year the LDS Reconciliation booth will be co hosted by the Wasatch Chapter of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons. The booth this year will be focusing on resources available to Gay and Lesbian Mormons or ex-Mormons as well as the 2009 International Affirmation Conference to be held in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah Guest House September 18-20. The theme for this years conference is “The View From Here”.
The missionary map will still be making it’s way to Utah Pride in a different form. In past years, there has never been a good count of how many pins were pinned to the map and information on where people served was not kept. This year in an effort to gather more concrete informationm, the missionary map will be placed in a different booth in an electronic format. The information gathered will be invaluable statistically in working with “The Church” and other organizations to help support furthering equal rights causes in Utah and possibly nationwide. We encourage you to locate the new home of the missionary map and provide your information.
Topics: Gay Mormon, Utah Pride Activites | 2 Comments »
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have said that they love you.
The scriptures are clear about loving one another. Also about natural order, along with devine Leadership.
If you don’t believe in these tenets, make sure to have a relationship with God and gather together to “go to church” of your own.
If you feel this strongly, what’s the problem – join together and worship.
It’s simple, join with the LDS congragrations because you follow and believe what’s being said there, or go to your own that you form around mans political correctness.
Pls understand the love of every person, which is the foundation of Christs’ teachings and of the Gospel, is paramount.
October 29th, 2010 at 11:55 am
This is awesome! I love that there is a missionary map of gay lds people. I don’t think many members realize that their Sunday school teacher, Quorum leader, and the person sitting next to them in church could very well be one of the people they are talking about when the make comments about homosexuals.
We have dedicated much of our lives to the gospel just like them and have loved it just like them. Unlike them however, we seem to be unwanted.