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September 17, 2005, Century Publication Co., The Worth of a Soul Is Great, by Elder James O. Mason,
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March 16 2006, Deseret News - AP, Gay man faces LDS excommunication over marriage, by Jennifer Dobner, diigo,
November 2006, Web Page, The Etiology of Homosexuality, from Authoritative Latter-day Saint Perspectives, 1879-2006, by Connell O'Donovan,
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May 1, 2008, Psychology Today, Finding the Switch, by Robert Kunzig, Archived, Homosexuality may persist because the associated genes convey surprising advantages on homosexuals' family members.
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September 20, 2008, The Wall Street Journal, Mormons Boost Antigay Marriage Effort Group Has Given Millions in Support of California Fund, by Mark Schoof, diigo,
November 2, 2008, KSL TV, Steve Young corrects involvement in Prop. 8, by Carole Mikita, diigo,
November 14, 2008, The New York Times, Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage, by Jesse McKinley and Kirk Johnson, diigo,
November 14, 2008, New York Times, Bits: Web Used to Organize Gay-Marriage Rally,
November 25, 2008, New York Times.page A21, Inquiry Set on Mormon Aid for California Marriage Vote, by Jesse McKinley, diigo,
December 21, 2008, Huffington Post, Why Gay Marriage is the Wrong Issue, by Bob Ostertag,
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February 18, 2009, On Top Magazine, Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound, Archived,
May 7, 2009, Actress Archives, Marie Osmond is a Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Mom, by Actress Archives, diigo,
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May 29, 2009, The Salt Lake Tribune - Washington Post, Now it's gays versus the Mormons, by Karl Vick, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Mormon Church backs protection of gay rights in Salt Lake City, by Scott Taylor, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Salt Lake City seeks input on gay-resident protections, by Aaron Falk, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Press Release from LDS Church, Church Supports Non-Discrimination Ordinance,
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November 11 2009, Deseret News, Text from LDS church on S.L. policy, diigo,
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November 20, 2009, CNN News, 'Summers were the worst,' says woman in Missouri sex abuse case, by Emanuella Grinberg,
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April 13, 2010 (Release Date) The Fall of '55, DVD, Narrated by Claudia Weathermon (Actor), Seth Randal (Director) diigo,
September 22, 2010, Southern Poverty Law Center, Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Accused of Exploiting Teenage Boys, by Robert Steinback, Archived,
September 25, 2010, Huffington Post, Keith Olbermann's Prop 8 Special Comment: It's "About The Human Heart" (Video) diigo,
October 8, 2010, Associated Press, Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks, by Jennifer Dobner, diigo,
October 12, 2010, LDS Newsroom, Church Responds to HRC Petition: Statement on Same-Sex Attraction, Official statement read by Michael Otterson on behalf of the Church,
October 12, 2010, YouTube, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Responds,
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November 2010, Ensign, pages 17-20, More Diligent and Concerned at Home, by David A. Bednar,
July 13, 2011, The Digital Universe [BYU], A legacy of compassion: Lehi couple says goodbye to firesides for Latter-day Saints with same-gender attraction, by Hunter Schwarz, diigo,
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December 29, 2011, South Florida Times, Deputy Accused Of Molesting Autistic Girl, by Elgin Jones, diigo,
January 19, 2012, examiner.com, Romney: lucky he's not a gay atheist, by Kristen Schuble,
May 22, 2012, LDS Living magazine, Relating to Your Son or Daughter Experiencing Same-gender Attraction: Advice to Parents, by M. Catherine Thomas, Archived,
September 8, 2012, Mormon Teachings, Little Factory: Quote From Boyd K. Packer, diigo,
October 9, 2012, The Independent, Gay marriage campaign? It's the first step to Third Reich, says Carey, by Oliver Wright, diigo,
November 2, 2012, examiner.com, Mitt Romney steadfast on something: same-sex parenting,
November 2, 2012, examiner.com, LGBT voters may make difference in close election,
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December 7, 2012, NBC News, New website from Mormon church: 'Sexuality is not a choice', by Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, Archived, diigo,
December 12, 2012, Mormon Newsroom, Interview With Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Lance B. Wickman: Same-Gender Attraction, diigo,
December 17, 2012, Pittsburgh Post‑Gazette, Boy Scouts, Mormons accused in sex abuse complaint,
June 25, 2013, Reuters, Boy Scouts, Mormon Church sued in Idaho pedophile case,
June 26, 2013, Courthouse News Service, Boy Scouts, Mormon Church Accused of Abuse,
August 29, 2013, MSN News - AP, Court upholds ban on gay-to-straight therapy, by Paul Elias, diigo,
October 1, 2013, The Salt Lake Tribune, Noted historian still believes in Mormonism, but now as an outsider, by Peggy Fletcher Stack, diigo,
October 18, 2013, Standard‑Examiner, Scout leader in Roy arrested for allegedly downloading child porn,
December 23, 2013, New York Times, Utah's battle over gay marriage is a sign of a larger shift, by Niraj Chokshi and Carol Morello, diigo,
December 30, 2013, The New Republic, Is This the Reason Mormons in Utah Are Afraid of Gay Marriage?, diigo,
January 3, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Longtime support group for gay Mormons shuts down,
January 5, 2014, Daily Herald, LDS bishops and same-sex marriage, by Colin B. Douglas, diigo,
January 8, 2014, Huffington Post, Shoulders to the Wheel: The Most Optimistic Gay Mormon Moments of 2013,
January 10, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Mormon leader wins rights award for gay-friendly message,
January 11, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Letter: Mormons really are 'hell bent' on gay-marriage issue,
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January 23, 2014, FOX-13, Utah men sue LDS Church, pineapple company for alleged child sexual abuse, by Mark Green,
January 23, 2014, Huffington Post, Lawsuit: Mormon Boys Molested At Maui Pineapple Farms, Church Knew,
January 23, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Lawsuit: Mormon church covered up sexual abuse at Hawaii camps
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January 29, 2014, The Digital Universe [BYU] Utahns rally at Capitol for traditional marriage, by Erica Palmer, diigo,
February 4, 2014, Reuters, Utah state attorneys argue children at risk from gay marriage, by Jennifer Dobner, diigo,
February 10, 2014, Washington Post, Mormon church to weigh in on gay marriage ban,
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Journal: Mormon Church Arranged Lobbyist to Push Against LGBT Protections in Pocatellov,
Mormon church to review new Boy Scouts proposal,
Mormon apostle Packer warns against 'tolerance trap',
Panel discusses growing up 'Gay and Mormon',
San Francisco Mormon Church Reaches Out to Gay Community,
Mormon church encourages compassion for gays, still opposes same-sex relationships,
Convention center hosts conference on LDS same-sex attraction,
New schism surfaces among gay Mormons,
New booklet seeks to reconcile Mormon faith with gay youth,
Some Mormons separate gay marriage rights from church rites,
Proud Mormon parents of gay son make national news,
Former 'So You Think You Can Dance' Winner Comes Out,
300 Mormons march in Utah Gay Pride Parade,
Mormons to march in church clothes in Utah gay pride parade,
Gay teen's suicide in Utah highlights youth bullying risks,
Nearly 100 Attend LGBT Mormon Conference in Nation’s Capital,
Gay-rights advocates meet with LDS officials,
Group offers 'therapy' for LDS members with same-sex attraction,
Gay BYU students to Mormon youths: 'It gets better',
Gay and Mormon: BYU students speak on panel,
Gay Mormon Man's Suicide Points Up Tensions,
Dancing With Crazy,
Openly gay BYU producer, filmmaker fired,
Mormon bishop says church responsible for gays’ emotional wounds,
Unique challenges confronting gay Mormons addressed at Salt Lake City conference,
Theater: '14' examines violent therapy for gay Mormons in the 1970s,
Santa Clara teen who tried to 'pray the gay away' now champions gay youths,
Gay Mormon named to key local LDS leadership post in San Francisco,
A True Insider at 'Book of Mormon',
Study looks at experiences of gay Mormons,
Judges on 'The Voice' pick 'gay Mormon' and Utahn,
Living gay in the Mormon Church,
A Mormon lesbian's journey to finding herself,
A military man finds peace with his sexuality and his Mormon faith,
Gay at BYU: A former athlete tells his story,
Mormon 'Gay Cure' Study Used Electric Shocks Against Homosexual Feelings,
Groups try to spur dialogue, healing between gays, Mormons,
Mormon views differ on the use of reparative therapy,
Q&A: A practicing Mormon who supports same-sex marriage,
Coming out in America,
LDS and gay: Believer reconciles faith, love,
The passion of Sister Dixon...fer sure,
LDS Church responds to claims of changes in church policy regarding homosexuality,
Activists contend Mormon attitudes are factor in struggles of gay members,
LDS children's book on 'overcoming homosexuality' finds a home on WalMart shelves,
Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks,
Mormons divided on LDS apostle's speech on gays,
Troy Williams: The 'gay mayor of Salt Lake City',
Gay-Mormon play faces hostility from a different source,
Mormon Underwear By Johnny Townsend,
This Mormon Group Applauds Prop. 8 Ruling,
'Mormon Proposition' Director Reed Cowan Addresses Rash of Gay Mormon Suicides,
Thousands celebrate gay rights advances in Salt Lake parade,
Sister Dottie: Utah Pride Festival Grand Marshal 2010,
Stormin' Mormon,
Memorial held for gay Mormon who committed suicide in Los Altos,
Gay rights: Oakland LDS Stake tries to heal post-Prop 8 rifts,
'Dramatic jump' with Utahns for gay rights,
Utah Lawmakers Won't Take Up a Ban on Discrimination Against Gays,
Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits,
Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing LDS apostle: Prop 8 backlash against,
Mormons like civil-rights-era persecution of blacks,
Reid rips LDS Church's Prop. 8 support,
Is LDS Church taking a step back on gay issues?,
Mormons urged to stop shunning gay family members,
Gay ex-Mormon finds peace, joy; others seek to change same-sex desires,
The Mormon Church Couldn't Cure Justin Utley. So He Packed Up His Guitar and Left,
Hardened Kissing Criminals Will Not Face Charges for Smooching Near the Mormons,
Mormon 'kiss-in' in Utah leads to shouting match,
Gay couple detained near Mormon plaza after kiss,
Dustin Lance Black: I knew that God did not love me,
What happens when Mormon parents have a gay son?,
Man with a mission,
Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound,
Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies,
Utah: A Hornet's Nest That Gays & Lesbians Call 'Home',
Gay students at BYU still struggle for acceptance,
The Ex-Mormon Factor,
Walsh: Prop 8 rips friendship asunder,
LDS moms hold vigil against Prop. 8,
Together for 19 years: A St. George couple, Mormon and Catholic, married in California,
Gay support group criticizes Mormon leadership,
LDS Church leader speaks to 'same-sex attraction' group,
Mormons Clarify Gay Marriage Stance,
Gay pride event still a tough sell,
Mormon supporters of gay unions take to cyberspace,
Gay Mormons seek 'affirmation' from LDS leaders,
Mormon agency delays meeting with Affirmation,
Some Mormons challenge directive to campaign for gay marriage ban,
Mormon gays tread lightly in latest bid for acceptance,
Call for political displays rankles some Mormons,
LDS Church backs proposed California 'one man-one woman' marriage amendment,
Gay Mormons to church: Don't fight California court ruling,
Gay weddings flourish in a religious stronghold,
Gay Mormon, church officials to meet,
Plays about gay Mormons attracting audiences nationally,
Gay Mormon group asks for meeting with new church president,
Gay Mormons see change, stagnation in church,
Gay Mormons share stories on eve of conference,
The Toughest Call: Conversion Therapy,
LDS Church to publish new look at same-sex attraction,
Mormon church changes stance on homosexuality,
Mormon church's stance on gays changes subtly,
Mormon and gay: one man's journey,
Mormon uni eases anti-gay policy,
Play takes on agony of Mormon gays,
LDS Church tells gay rights group to keep off property,
'Too many goodbyes',
Recently 'Out' Gay Mormon Author and Wife of 25 Years Make Improbable Gay Activists,
Gay, Mormon, married,
LDS official to address group for gay Mormons,
Fired professor stands firm in support of gay marriage,
Gay Mormon describes life on brink of excommunication,
Gay, Mormon, married,
Following NYC Run, Confessions of a Mormon Boy Opens in Atlanta,
Column on Gay Marriage Prompts Dismissal,
LDS heed call to help outlaw gay marriage,
Mormon in legal gay marriage faces cutoff,
Mormon Boy Reveals (Almost) All,
Live, from Utah, a story of survival,
Gays see billboards as signs of change in Mormon Utah,
Mormon Leader: 'Gays Have A Problem',
Mormon parents 'came out with a vengeance' after their gay son died from AIDS,
Voices in Exile: Stories of Lesbian Mormons,
Gay-rights groups upset after Utah theater drops movie,
To Be Gay And Mormon,
Man charged with sex crimes was Mormon bishop,
Utah Mormon church counselor arrested in child sex-abuse case,
Kearns man who posed as Mormon marriage counselor sentenced to jail,
Charges dismissed against Utah Mormon bishop,
Mormon bishop takes deal in failure to report child abuse case,
Trial ordered for Mormon bishop charged with witness tampering, failing to report abuse,
Judge weighing whether Mormon bishop should stand trial for failure to report abuse,
Mormon Church sued in Dublin’s High Court by abuse victim of U.S. missionary,
Ex-Mormon bishop pleads guilty to child sex abuse,
Utah Mormon bishop accused of failing to report child abuse,
Susan Brock molestation case: Police recommended bishops be charged,
Former Oxnard man alleges sex abuse, sues Boy Scouts, Mormon church,
Prosecutors: Susan Brock pursued molested boy's brother first, Mormon church knew of sex,
Lisa Davis Exposes Molestation, the Mormon Church in The Sins of Brother Curtis,
Mormon Church to examine its role in Brock sex-abuse case,
Did fellow Mormons cover up officer's baby molestations?,
Part of lawsuit against church, Boy Scouts tossed,
Sex abuse costs Boy Scouts $18.5M,
Jury Finds Boy Scouts Negligent in Abuse Case; Punitive Damages Next,
Stephen Young pleads not guilty,
Church settles with plaintiff,
Mother of man suing Boy Scouts over alleged abuse says officials knew Timur Dykes' background,
LDS Youth Leader Accused Of Sex With Kids,
John Doe claimed that local videographer sexually abused him in 1990s, and that the local man's parents should have stopped alleged acts,
Former LDS music teacher accused of abuse has history of church problems Michael Simms was kicked out of another denomination's church in Salt Lake City,
Mormon church sued over sex abuse allegations,
Lawsuits to be filed against Boy Scouts and Mormon Church,
Seminary student's account of sex abuse is cautionary tale,
Mormon seminary principal in Utah suspected of sex with student,
Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to file charges of molestation against man who is also a former reserve officer,
Sexually abused woman loses bid to sue Mormons,
Woman wants to sue Mormons over abuse,
Weber man pleads guilty to sex abuse,
Child porn man jailed,
Mormon jailed for abusing boy,
Mormon guilty of sex abuse to be sentenced,
Mormon 'was mentor for church children',
Mormon appears in court charged with child abuse,
South Dakota sex case against Mormon church resolved,
Church's sex offender secrecy deplored,
Mother sues Mormon church in abuse case,
Two Portland men join sex-abuse lawsuit against Boy Scouts, Mormon church,
Michael Adamson convicted of molestation,
Church chose to stay quiet on sex abuse,
Talks aim to settle sex abuse lawsuit,
Mother of Sexually Abused Child Brings Suit Against Mormon Church,
Former Church Leaders Accused Of Molestation Cover-Up,
Former Mormon missionary gets prison in Nevada child sex case,
Man accusing Mormon missionary of 1960s sex abuse wants trial,
Former Mormon Missionary is Back Behind Bars,
Mormon Church, Boy Scouts sex abuse lawsuit grows,
Award Cut in Mormon Church Abuse Case,
Ex-member of LDS choir pleads guilty in porn case,
Church Volunteer Accused Of Molesting Young Girl,
Lawsuit against Mormons set for mediation,
One Man's Brutal Encounter With Sexual Abuse In the Mormon Church,
Police say LDS bishop used trust to molest sisters,
Missionary sued in alleged sex abuse,
2 men sue Mormons, Scouts over abuse,
Ex-choir member charged with lewdness with minor,
Lawsuit filed against church claims abuse,
Set adrift,
Man Sues LDS Church Claiming Abuse By Home Teacher,
Former LDS Missionary Sentenced for Forcible Sexual Abuse,
Former Mormon youth counselor sentenced to six months in prison,
LDS Church to appeal verdict on sex abuse,
LDS Church told to pay $4.2 million in abuse case,
Church liable in girls' abuse,
Former Mormon missionary spared prison in Vegas child sex case,
LDS Church Missionary Accused Of Sexual Abuse,
Second church volunteer arrested in child abuse probe,
Mormon Church Worker Charged With Child Sex Abuse,
LDS Teacher, Sheriff's Employee Accused of Abusing Girl,
Family Sues Mormon Church,
Abuse alleged in Mormon lawsuit,
Former Mormon stake president pleads guilty to soliciting Internet sex with teen,
Church not responsible for abusers,
Court asked to revisit church ruling,
Former Bishop Charged With Sex Abuse Fired From Corrections Job,
Former West Valley LDS Bishop Accused of Sex Abuse,
Former Mormon missionary in Vegas indicted on child sex charges,
Teacher Charged: Suspect's Computer Examined,
Mormon missionary accused of fondling girls at Vegas church,
Mormon missionary accused of fondling girls at Vegas church,
Former Mormon bishop busted,
Mormon Church sued again regarding child sexual abuse,
Mormon Church accused of failure to report sexual abuse,
LDS Church Is Targeted In Lawsuit,
Mormon Leader Denounces Sex Abuse,
Sex Abuse Lawsuit Is Settled by Mormons for $3 Million,
Sex Case May Pry Open Finances of LDS Church,
Crisis of Identity,
Judge orders Mormons to provide sex-abuse records,
Pressure to Forgive Challenges Mormon Families, Divides Wards,
Sexual abuse of children in the Mormon Church,
Clergy Ignores Victims, Allege LDS Plaintiffs,
Mormon psychologist's recanting about church flaw puzzles some,
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Mormonism-Unveiled: Fact Vs. Fancy: 10/7/12 - 10/14/12
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Oct 7, 2012
Rejoice in Christ: October 2010
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Gay Mormons
Mormon church criticizes Supreme Court ruling while gay rights group celebrate in Utah
Boy Scouts-Mormon bond remains intact
Journal: Mormon Church Arranged Lobbyist to Push Against LGBT Protections in Pocatellov
Mormon church to review new Boy Scouts proposal
Mormon apostle Packer warns against 'tolerance trap'
Panel discusses growing up 'Gay and Mormon'
San Francisco Mormon Church Reaches Out to Gay Community
Mormon church encourages compassion for gays, still opposes same-sex relationships
Convention center hosts conference on LDS same-sex attraction
New schism surfaces among gay Mormons
New booklet seeks to reconcile Mormon faith with gay youth
Some Mormons separate gay marriage rights from church rites
Proud Mormon parents of gay son make national news
Former 'So You Think You Can Dance' Winner Comes Out
300 Mormons march in Utah Gay Pride Parade
Mormons to march in church clothes in Utah gay pride parade
Gay teen's suicide in Utah highlights youth bullying risks
Nearly 100 Attend LGBT Mormon Conference in Nation’s Capital
Gay-rights advocates meet with LDS officials
Group offers 'therapy' for LDS members with same-sex attraction
Gay BYU students to Mormon youths: 'It gets better'
Gay and Mormon: BYU students speak on panel
Gay Mormon Man's Suicide Points Up Tensions
Dancing With Crazy
Openly gay BYU producer, filmmaker fired
Mormon bishop says church responsible for gays’ emotional wounds
Unique challenges confronting gay Mormons addressed at Salt Lake City conference
Theater: '14' examines violent therapy for gay Mormons in the 1970s
Santa Clara teen who tried to 'pray the gay away' now champions gay youths
Gay Mormon named to key local LDS leadership post in San Francisco
A True Insider at 'Book of Mormon'
Study looks at experiences of gay Mormons
Judges on 'The Voice' pick 'gay Mormon' and Utahn
Living gay in the Mormon Church
A Mormon lesbian's journey to finding herself
A military man finds peace with his sexuality and his Mormon faith
Gay at BYU: A former athlete tells his story
Mormon 'Gay Cure' Study Used Electric Shocks Against Homosexual Feelings
Groups try to spur dialogue, healing between gays, Mormons
Mormon views differ on the use of reparative therapy
Q&A: A practicing Mormon who supports same-sex marriage
Coming out in America
LDS and gay: Believer reconciles faith, love
The passion of Sister Dixon...fer sure
LDS Church responds to claims of changes in church policy regarding homosexuality
Activists contend Mormon attitudes are factor in struggles of gay members
LDS children's book on 'overcoming homosexuality' finds a home on WalMart shelves
Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks
Mormons divided on LDS apostle's speech on gays
Troy Williams: The 'gay mayor of Salt Lake City'
Gay-Mormon play faces hostility from a different source
Mormon Underwear By Johnny Townsend
This Mormon Group Applauds Prop. 8 Ruling
'Mormon Proposition' Director Reed Cowan Addresses Rash of Gay Mormon Suicides
Thousands celebrate gay rights advances in Salt Lake parade
Sister Dottie: Utah Pride Festival Grand Marshal 2010
Stormin' Mormon
Memorial held for gay Mormon who committed suicide in Los Altos
Gay rights: Oakland LDS Stake tries to heal post-Prop 8 rifts
'Dramatic jump' with Utahns for gay rights
Utah Lawmakers Won't Take Up a Ban on Discrimination Against Gays
Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits
Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing
LDS apostle: Prop 8 backlash against Mormons like civil-rights-era persecution of blacks
Reid rips LDS Church's Prop. 8 support
Is LDS Church taking a step back on gay issues?
Mormons urged to stop shunning gay family members
Gay ex-Mormon finds peace, joy; others seek to change same-sex desires
The Mormon Church Couldn't Cure Justin Utley. So He Packed Up His Guitar and Left
Hardened Kissing Criminals Will Not Face Charges for Smooching Near the Mormons
Mormon 'kiss-in' in Utah leads to shouting match
Gay couple detained near Mormon plaza after kiss
Dustin Lance Black: I knew that God did not love me
What happens when Mormon parents have a gay son?
Man with a mission
Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies
Utah: A Hornet's Nest That Gays & Lesbians Call 'Home'
Gay students at BYU still struggle for acceptance
The Ex-Mormon Factor
Walsh: Prop 8 rips friendship asunder
LDS moms hold vigil against Prop. 8
Together for 19 years: A St. George couple, Mormon and Catholic, married in California
Gay support group criticizes Mormon leadership
LDS Church leader speaks to 'same-sex attraction' group
Mormons Clarify Gay Marriage Stance
Gay pride event still a tough sell
Mormon supporters of gay unions take to cyberspace
Gay Mormons seek 'affirmation' from LDS leaders
Mormon agency delays meeting with Affirmation
Some Mormons challenge directive to campaign for gay marriage ban
Mormon gays tread lightly in latest bid for acceptance
Call for political displays rankles some Mormons
LDS Church backs proposed California 'one man-one woman' marriage amendment
Gay Mormons to church: Don't fight California court ruling
Gay weddings flourish in a religious stronghold
Gay Mormon, church officials to meet
Plays about gay Mormons attracting audiences nationally
Gay Mormon group asks for meeting with new church president
Gay Mormons see change, stagnation in church
Gay Mormons share stories on eve of conference
The Toughest Call: Conversion Therapy,
Mormon church changes stance on homosexuality
Mormon church's stance on gays changes subtly
Mormon and gay: one man's journey
Mormon uni eases anti-gay policy
Play takes on agony of Mormon gays
LDS Church tells gay rights group to keep off property
'Too many goodbyes'
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March 28, 2009, Sunstone West, Cupertino CA, "I would confine them to their own species": LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks, by Connell O’Donovan,
http://www.connellodonovan.com/black_white_marriage.html
Non-refereed Articles
November 2, 2008, KSL TV, Steve Young corrects involvement in Prop. 8, by Carole Mikita, diigo,
November 14, 2008, The New York Times, Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage, by Jesse McKinley and Kirk Johnson, diigo,
November 14, 2008, New York Times, Bits: Web Used to Organize Gay-Marriage Rally,
November 25, 2008, New York Times.page A21, Inquiry Set on Mormon Aid for California Marriage Vote, by Jesse McKinley, diigo,
December 21, 2008, Huffington Post, Why Gay Marriage is the Wrong Issue, by Bob Ostertag,
January 1, 2009, Mormon Newsroom, Statement Given to Salt Lake City Council on Nondiscrimination Ordinances, diigo,
January 28, 2009, Queerty, [New Zealand] Utah: A Hornet's Nest That Gays & Lesbians Call 'Home', by Japhy Grant, diigo,
February 18, 2009, On Top Magazine, Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound, Archived,
May 7, 2009, Actress Archives, Marie Osmond is a Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Mom, by Actress Archives, diigo,
May 10, 2009, DeadManMusings Blogspot, Donny and Marie: A National Embarassment, by Paul A. Drockton, M.A., diigo,
May 29, 2009, The Salt Lake Tribune - Washington Post, Now it's gays versus the Mormons, by Karl Vick, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Mormon Church backs protection of gay rights in Salt Lake City, by Scott Taylor, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Salt Lake City seeks input on gay-resident protections, by Aaron Falk, diigo,
November 10, 2009, Deseret News, Press Release from LDS Church, Church Supports Non-Discrimination Ordinance,
November 11, 2009, Deseret News, Mormon church supports Salt Lake City's protections for gay rights, by Aaron Falk and Scott Taylor, diigo,
November 11 2009, Deseret News, Text from LDS church on S.L. policy, diigo,
November 11, 2009, New York Times, Mormon Support of Gay Right Statute Draws Praise, by Kirk Johnson,
November 12 2009, Deseret News, Protections for gays face tough fight at Utah Legislature, by Bob Bernick Jr.and Lisa Riley Roche and Arthur Raymond, diigo,
November 20, 2009, CNN News, 'Summers were the worst,' says woman in Missouri sex abuse case, by Emanuella Grinberg,
December 2, 2009, On Top Magazine, Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits, diigo,
April 13, 2010 (Release Date) The Fall of '55, DVD, Narrated by Claudia Weathermon (Actor), Seth Randal (Director) diigo,
September 22, 2010, Southern Poverty Law Center, Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Accused of Exploiting Teenage Boys, by Robert Steinback, Archived,
September 25, 2010, Huffington Post, Keith Olbermann's Prop 8 Special Comment: It's "About The Human Heart" (Video) diigo,
October 8, 2010, Associated Press, Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks, by Jennifer Dobner, diigo,
October 12, 2010, LDS Newsroom, Church Responds to HRC Petition: Statement on Same-Sex Attraction, Official statement read by Michael Otterson on behalf of the Church,
October 12, 2010, YouTube, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Responds,
November 2010, Ensign, pages 19-22, Of Things That Matter Most, by Dieter F. Uchtdorf,
November 2010, Ensign, pages 17-20, More Diligent and Concerned at Home, by David A. Bednar,
July 13, 2011, The Digital Universe [BYU], A legacy of compassion: Lehi couple says goodbye to firesides for Latter-day Saints with same-gender attraction, by Hunter Schwarz, diigo,
October 6, 2011, [1st web capture] (Copyright 2002) A Guide for Latter-day Saint Families Dealing with Homosexual Attraction, by R.A. Rees, R. Schow, M. Raynes, W. Bradshaw, Archived,
December 29, 2011, South Florida Times, Deputy Accused Of Molesting Autistic Girl, by Elgin Jones, diigo,
January 19, 2012, examiner.com, Romney: lucky he's not a gay atheist, by Kristen Schuble,
May 22, 2012, LDS Living magazine, Relating to Your Son or Daughter Experiencing Same-gender Attraction: Advice to Parents, by M. Catherine Thomas, Archived,
September 8, 2012, Mormon Teachings, Little Factory: Quote From Boyd K. Packer, diigo,
October 9, 2012, The Independent, Gay marriage campaign? It's the first step to Third Reich, says Carey, by Oliver Wright, diigo,
November 2, 2012, examiner.com, Mitt Romney steadfast on something: same-sex parenting,
November 2, 2012, examiner.com, LGBT voters may make difference in close election,
December 6, 2012 [1st web capture] Love One Another: A Discussion on Same-Sex Attraction, various authors: Elders Oaks, Christofferson; Pres. Carter, Archived,
December 7, 2012, NBC News, New website from Mormon church: 'Sexuality is not a choice', by Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, Archived, diigo,
December 12, 2012, Mormon Newsroom, Interview With Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Lance B. Wickman: Same-Gender Attraction, diigo,
December 17, 2012, Pittsburgh Post‑Gazette, Boy Scouts, Mormons accused in sex abuse complaint,
June 25, 2013, Reuters, Boy Scouts, Mormon Church sued in Idaho pedophile case,
June 26, 2013, Courthouse News Service, Boy Scouts, Mormon Church Accused of Abuse,
August 29, 2013, MSN News - AP, Court upholds ban on gay-to-straight therapy, by Paul Elias, diigo,
October 1, 2013, The Salt Lake Tribune, Noted historian still believes in Mormonism, but now as an outsider, by Peggy Fletcher Stack, diigo,
October 18, 2013, Standard‑Examiner, Scout leader in Roy arrested for allegedly downloading child porn,
December 23, 2013, New York Times, Utah's battle over gay marriage is a sign of a larger shift, by Niraj Chokshi and Carol Morello, diigo,
December 30, 2013, The New Republic, Is This the Reason Mormons in Utah Are Afraid of Gay Marriage?, diigo,
January 3, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Longtime support group for gay Mormons shuts down,
January 5, 2014, Daily Herald, LDS bishops and same-sex marriage, by Colin B. Douglas, diigo,
January 8, 2014, Huffington Post, Shoulders to the Wheel: The Most Optimistic Gay Mormon Moments of 2013,
January 10, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Mormon leader wins rights award for gay-friendly message,
January 11, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Letter: Mormons really are 'hell bent' on gay-marriage issue,
January 14, 2014, The Digital Universe [BYU] Drawing the line between church and the state of Utah, by Mallory Jesperson, diigo,
January 15, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Can Mormons back same-sex marriage and still get in the temple?
January 18, 2014, Deseret News, Poll: Majority of Utahns against same-sex marriage and say states have the right to decide, by Dennis Romboy,
January 23, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune (blog) Why is Utah's hired gun fighting gay marriage? His Mormonism,
January 23, 2014, FOX-13, Utah men sue LDS Church, pineapple company for alleged child sexual abuse, by Mark Green,
January 23, 2014, Huffington Post, Lawsuit: Mormon Boys Molested At Maui Pineapple Farms, Church Knew,
January 23, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, Lawsuit: Mormon church covered up sexual abuse at Hawaii camps
Two Utah men are suing the Mormon church claiming that decades ago they were sexually molested as boys after the church recruited them to pick pineapples in Hawaii.
January 24, 2014, Christian Post, Two Men File Lawsuit Against Mormon Church Alleging Sexual Abuse as Teens by Church Leader on Pineapple Farm in Hawaii, by Morgan Lee,
January 29, 2014, The Digital Universe [BYU] Utahns rally at Capitol for traditional marriage, by Erica Palmer, diigo,
February 4, 2014, Reuters, Utah state attorneys argue children at risk from gay marriage, by Jennifer Dobner, diigo,
February 10, 2014, Washington Post, Mormon church to weigh in on gay marriage ban,
February 10, 2014, WBTV - AP, Religious groups join, fight gay marriage in court, by Brady McCombs, diigo,
February 10, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune, LDS Church, other faiths say traditional marriage is crucial, by Brooke Adams, February 12, 2014, The Digital Universe [BYU] BYU teaching to same-sex marriage landscape, by Spencer Wright, diigo,
The Eugene England Foundation, A Voice from the Dust: Eugene England and the Art of Changing Minds, by Ben Cook,
Mormon Social Science, Chronology Of Mormon / LDS Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics, by Richley Crapo,
Struggling With "Same-Gender Attraction" in the LDS Church, by D. Michael Quinn,
Mormon and Queer at Crossroads, by Alan Michael Williams,
Mormons and Gay Rights-Shared Values, by Elijah K. Nielson, JD, LLM, MSW
Wikipedia, Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Wikipedia, California Proposition 8 (2008)
Wikipedia, Talk: Mormonism and violence,
Official Website, www.MormonsAndGays.org,
Ballotpedia, Florida Definition of Marriage, Amendment 2 (2008)
October 18, 2013, Christian Post, Atheists Seeking Billboard Space Claim Utah Fears Mormon Church: 'It's Like the Italian Mafia', by Katherine Weber, diigo,
October 25, 2013, The Salt Lake Tribune, Atheist group says Utah billboard companies fear Mormon church, by Matthew Piper, diigo,
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State of the Organization and Chairman's Message; Report from Larry Richman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Delivered Saturday, September 16, 2006 at the 16th Annual Evergreen Conference,
2,720 URLs have been captured for this domain.
Evergreen, About Us, Archived,
State of the Organization and Chairman's Message; Report from Larry Richman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Delivered Saturday, September 16, 2006 at the 16th Annual Evergreen Conference,
2,720 URLs have been captured for this domain.
Evergreen, About Us, Archived,
Evergreen [1st web capture]
Evergreen [2nd web capture]
Abstinence-only sex ed bill passes Utah Senate,
Journal: Mormon Church Arranged Lobbyist to Push Against LGBT Protections in Pocatellov,
BYU Campus newspaper pulls student's editorial on prop 8,
Mormon Church to be fined by state political commission over Proposition 8,
Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound,
Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies,
Gay rights group calls for LDS Church support,
Memo links Mass. couple to Prop 22, Mormon strategy,
Mormons under siege,
Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits,
LDS apostle: Prop 8 backlash against Mormons like civil-rights-era persecution of blacks,
Reid rips LDS Church's Prop. 8 support,
Quiet support for Proposition 8,
Steve Young lines up against Mormon church on Prop. 8,
Records: Mormon church contributed to proposition,
Mormon group protests church's gay marriage stance,
Mormons renew calls for Calif. gay marriage ban,
Mormon Priest Threatened with Excommunication in Marriage Row,
Mormons boost anti-gay marriage effort,
Mormon church voices view on gay marriage,
May 26, 2013, www.withoutend.org, Elder Packer and the Danger of Homosexuality, 20 Years Later
November 20, 2008, Mormon in the Closet, LDS Gay History Timeline [Unabridged],
December 30, 2008, Latter-day Commentary, Gay Mormons, Evergreen Intl and Affirmation, by Tim Malone,
Affirmation.org, Evergreen Pages,
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Abstinence-only sex ed bill passes Utah Senate,
Journal: Mormon Church Arranged Lobbyist to Push Against LGBT Protections in Pocatellov,
BYU Campus newspaper pulls student's editorial on prop 8,
Mormon Church to be fined by state political commission over Proposition 8,
Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound,
Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies,
Gay rights group calls for LDS Church support,
Memo links Mass. couple to Prop 22, Mormon strategy,
Mormons under siege,
Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits,
LDS apostle: Prop 8 backlash against Mormons like civil-rights-era persecution of blacks,
Reid rips LDS Church's Prop. 8 support,
Quiet support for Proposition 8,
Steve Young lines up against Mormon church on Prop. 8,
Records: Mormon church contributed to proposition,
Mormon group protests church's gay marriage stance,
Mormons renew calls for Calif. gay marriage ban,
Mormon Priest Threatened with Excommunication in Marriage Row,
Mormons boost anti-gay marriage effort,
Mormon church voices view on gay marriage,
May 26, 2013, www.withoutend.org, Elder Packer and the Danger of Homosexuality, 20 Years Later
November 20, 2008, Mormon in the Closet, LDS Gay History Timeline [Unabridged],
December 30, 2008, Latter-day Commentary, Gay Mormons, Evergreen Intl and Affirmation, by Tim Malone,
August 21, 2009, Web Page, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, diigo,
August 21, 2009, Franklin Cover-up: Part 1, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, Franklin Cover-up: Part 2, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, YouTube, Franklin Cover-up: Part 3, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, YouTube, Franklin Cover-up: Part 4, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
May 22, 2012, LDS Living magazine, Relating to Your Son or Daughter Experiencing Same-gender Attraction: Advice to Parents, by M. Catherine Thomas,
This article is an excerpt of a chapter in A Gift of Love: Perspectives for Parents, in the book Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction–An Anthology of Gospel Teachings and Personal Essays (Deseret Book, 2011), compiled by Ty Mansfield.
August 21, 2009, Franklin Cover-up: Part 1, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, Franklin Cover-up: Part 2, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, YouTube, Franklin Cover-up: Part 3, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
August 21, 2009, YouTube, Franklin Cover-up: Part 4, Interview with John DeCamp, posted by Paul A Drockton,
May 22, 2012, LDS Living magazine, Relating to Your Son or Daughter Experiencing Same-gender Attraction: Advice to Parents, by M. Catherine Thomas,
This article is an excerpt of a chapter in A Gift of Love: Perspectives for Parents, in the book Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction–An Anthology of Gospel Teachings and Personal Essays (Deseret Book, 2011), compiled by Ty Mansfield.
October 12, 2010, LDS Newsroom, Church Responds to HRC Petition: Statement on Same-Sex Attraction, Official statement read by Michael Otterson on behalf of the Church,
October 12, 2010, YouTube, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Responds,
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement through a spokesman following the delivery of a petition by the Human Rights Campaign:
January 29 2014, Salt Lake City Tribune, Letter: Arguments against gay marriage debunked, diigo,
June 27, 2013, Associated Press, Mormon church criticizes Supreme Court ruling while gay rights group celebrate in Utah, by Brady McCombs and Michell L. Price,
October 12, 2010, YouTube, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Responds,
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement through a spokesman following the delivery of a petition by the Human Rights Campaign:
January 29 2014, Salt Lake City Tribune, Letter: Arguments against gay marriage debunked, diigo,
June 27, 2013, Associated Press, Mormon church criticizes Supreme Court ruling while gay rights group celebrate in Utah, by Brady McCombs and Michell L. Price,
Boy Scouts-Mormon bond remains intact,
Journal: Mormon Church Arranged Lobbyist to Push Against LGBT Protections in Pocatellov,
Mormon church to review new Boy Scouts proposal,
Mormon apostle Packer warns against 'tolerance trap',
Panel discusses growing up 'Gay and Mormon',
San Francisco Mormon Church Reaches Out to Gay Community,
Mormon church encourages compassion for gays, still opposes same-sex relationships,
Convention center hosts conference on LDS same-sex attraction,
New schism surfaces among gay Mormons,
New booklet seeks to reconcile Mormon faith with gay youth,
Some Mormons separate gay marriage rights from church rites,
Proud Mormon parents of gay son make national news,
Former 'So You Think You Can Dance' Winner Comes Out,
300 Mormons march in Utah Gay Pride Parade,
Mormons to march in church clothes in Utah gay pride parade,
Gay teen's suicide in Utah highlights youth bullying risks,
Nearly 100 Attend LGBT Mormon Conference in Nation’s Capital,
Gay-rights advocates meet with LDS officials,
Group offers 'therapy' for LDS members with same-sex attraction,
Gay BYU students to Mormon youths: 'It gets better',
Gay and Mormon: BYU students speak on panel,
Gay Mormon Man's Suicide Points Up Tensions,
Dancing With Crazy,
Openly gay BYU producer, filmmaker fired,
Mormon bishop says church responsible for gays’ emotional wounds,
Unique challenges confronting gay Mormons addressed at Salt Lake City conference,
Theater: '14' examines violent therapy for gay Mormons in the 1970s,
Santa Clara teen who tried to 'pray the gay away' now champions gay youths,
Gay Mormon named to key local LDS leadership post in San Francisco,
A True Insider at 'Book of Mormon',
Study looks at experiences of gay Mormons,
Judges on 'The Voice' pick 'gay Mormon' and Utahn,
Living gay in the Mormon Church,
A Mormon lesbian's journey to finding herself,
A military man finds peace with his sexuality and his Mormon faith,
Gay at BYU: A former athlete tells his story,
Mormon 'Gay Cure' Study Used Electric Shocks Against Homosexual Feelings,
Groups try to spur dialogue, healing between gays, Mormons,
Mormon views differ on the use of reparative therapy,
Q&A: A practicing Mormon who supports same-sex marriage,
Coming out in America,
LDS and gay: Believer reconciles faith, love,
The passion of Sister Dixon...fer sure,
LDS Church responds to claims of changes in church policy regarding homosexuality,
Activists contend Mormon attitudes are factor in struggles of gay members,
LDS children's book on 'overcoming homosexuality' finds a home on WalMart shelves,
Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks,
Mormons divided on LDS apostle's speech on gays,
Troy Williams: The 'gay mayor of Salt Lake City',
Gay-Mormon play faces hostility from a different source,
Mormon Underwear By Johnny Townsend,
This Mormon Group Applauds Prop. 8 Ruling,
'Mormon Proposition' Director Reed Cowan Addresses Rash of Gay Mormon Suicides,
Thousands celebrate gay rights advances in Salt Lake parade,
Sister Dottie: Utah Pride Festival Grand Marshal 2010,
Stormin' Mormon,
Memorial held for gay Mormon who committed suicide in Los Altos,
Gay rights: Oakland LDS Stake tries to heal post-Prop 8 rifts,
'Dramatic jump' with Utahns for gay rights,
Utah Lawmakers Won't Take Up a Ban on Discrimination Against Gays,
Utah's Gay Senator Calls It Quits,
Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing LDS apostle: Prop 8 backlash against,
Mormons like civil-rights-era persecution of blacks,
Reid rips LDS Church's Prop. 8 support,
Is LDS Church taking a step back on gay issues?,
Mormons urged to stop shunning gay family members,
Gay ex-Mormon finds peace, joy; others seek to change same-sex desires,
The Mormon Church Couldn't Cure Justin Utley. So He Packed Up His Guitar and Left,
Hardened Kissing Criminals Will Not Face Charges for Smooching Near the Mormons,
Mormon 'kiss-in' in Utah leads to shouting match,
Gay couple detained near Mormon plaza after kiss,
Dustin Lance Black: I knew that God did not love me,
What happens when Mormon parents have a gay son?,
Man with a mission,
Anti-Gay Utah Senator Salts The Wound,
Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies,
Utah: A Hornet's Nest That Gays & Lesbians Call 'Home',
Gay students at BYU still struggle for acceptance,
The Ex-Mormon Factor,
Walsh: Prop 8 rips friendship asunder,
LDS moms hold vigil against Prop. 8,
Together for 19 years: A St. George couple, Mormon and Catholic, married in California,
Gay support group criticizes Mormon leadership,
LDS Church leader speaks to 'same-sex attraction' group,
Mormons Clarify Gay Marriage Stance,
Gay pride event still a tough sell,
Mormon supporters of gay unions take to cyberspace,
Gay Mormons seek 'affirmation' from LDS leaders,
Mormon agency delays meeting with Affirmation,
Some Mormons challenge directive to campaign for gay marriage ban,
Mormon gays tread lightly in latest bid for acceptance,
Call for political displays rankles some Mormons,
LDS Church backs proposed California 'one man-one woman' marriage amendment,
Gay Mormons to church: Don't fight California court ruling,
Gay weddings flourish in a religious stronghold,
Gay Mormon, church officials to meet,
Plays about gay Mormons attracting audiences nationally,
Gay Mormon group asks for meeting with new church president,
Gay Mormons see change, stagnation in church,
Gay Mormons share stories on eve of conference,
The Toughest Call: Conversion Therapy,
LDS Church to publish new look at same-sex attraction,
Mormon church changes stance on homosexuality,
Mormon church's stance on gays changes subtly,
Mormon and gay: one man's journey,
Mormon uni eases anti-gay policy,
Play takes on agony of Mormon gays,
LDS Church tells gay rights group to keep off property,
'Too many goodbyes',
Recently 'Out' Gay Mormon Author and Wife of 25 Years Make Improbable Gay Activists,
Gay, Mormon, married,
LDS official to address group for gay Mormons,
Fired professor stands firm in support of gay marriage,
Gay Mormon describes life on brink of excommunication,
Gay, Mormon, married,
Following NYC Run, Confessions of a Mormon Boy Opens in Atlanta,
Column on Gay Marriage Prompts Dismissal,
LDS heed call to help outlaw gay marriage,
Mormon in legal gay marriage faces cutoff,
Mormon Boy Reveals (Almost) All,
Live, from Utah, a story of survival,
Gays see billboards as signs of change in Mormon Utah,
Mormon Leader: 'Gays Have A Problem',
Mormon parents 'came out with a vengeance' after their gay son died from AIDS,
Voices in Exile: Stories of Lesbian Mormons,
Gay-rights groups upset after Utah theater drops movie,
To Be Gay And Mormon,
Sex Abuse Claims
Carlsbad police: Mormon missionary turns himself in for sexual abuse,Man charged with sex crimes was Mormon bishop,
Utah Mormon church counselor arrested in child sex-abuse case,
Kearns man who posed as Mormon marriage counselor sentenced to jail,
Charges dismissed against Utah Mormon bishop,
Mormon bishop takes deal in failure to report child abuse case,
Trial ordered for Mormon bishop charged with witness tampering, failing to report abuse,
Judge weighing whether Mormon bishop should stand trial for failure to report abuse,
Mormon Church sued in Dublin’s High Court by abuse victim of U.S. missionary,
Ex-Mormon bishop pleads guilty to child sex abuse,
Utah Mormon bishop accused of failing to report child abuse,
Susan Brock molestation case: Police recommended bishops be charged,
Former Oxnard man alleges sex abuse, sues Boy Scouts, Mormon church,
Prosecutors: Susan Brock pursued molested boy's brother first, Mormon church knew of sex,
Lisa Davis Exposes Molestation, the Mormon Church in The Sins of Brother Curtis,
Mormon Church to examine its role in Brock sex-abuse case,
Did fellow Mormons cover up officer's baby molestations?,
Part of lawsuit against church, Boy Scouts tossed,
Sex abuse costs Boy Scouts $18.5M,
Jury Finds Boy Scouts Negligent in Abuse Case; Punitive Damages Next,
Stephen Young pleads not guilty,
Church settles with plaintiff,
Mother of man suing Boy Scouts over alleged abuse says officials knew Timur Dykes' background,
LDS Youth Leader Accused Of Sex With Kids,
John Doe claimed that local videographer sexually abused him in 1990s, and that the local man's parents should have stopped alleged acts,
Former LDS music teacher accused of abuse has history of church problems Michael Simms was kicked out of another denomination's church in Salt Lake City,
Mormon church sued over sex abuse allegations,
Lawsuits to be filed against Boy Scouts and Mormon Church,
Seminary student's account of sex abuse is cautionary tale,
Mormon seminary principal in Utah suspected of sex with student,
Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to file charges of molestation against man who is also a former reserve officer,
Sexually abused woman loses bid to sue Mormons,
Woman wants to sue Mormons over abuse,
Weber man pleads guilty to sex abuse,
Child porn man jailed,
Mormon jailed for abusing boy,
Mormon guilty of sex abuse to be sentenced,
Mormon 'was mentor for church children',
Mormon appears in court charged with child abuse,
South Dakota sex case against Mormon church resolved,
Church's sex offender secrecy deplored,
Mother sues Mormon church in abuse case,
Two Portland men join sex-abuse lawsuit against Boy Scouts, Mormon church,
Michael Adamson convicted of molestation,
Church chose to stay quiet on sex abuse,
Talks aim to settle sex abuse lawsuit,
Mother of Sexually Abused Child Brings Suit Against Mormon Church,
Former Church Leaders Accused Of Molestation Cover-Up,
Former Mormon missionary gets prison in Nevada child sex case,
Man accusing Mormon missionary of 1960s sex abuse wants trial,
Former Mormon Missionary is Back Behind Bars,
Mormon Church, Boy Scouts sex abuse lawsuit grows,
Award Cut in Mormon Church Abuse Case,
Ex-member of LDS choir pleads guilty in porn case,
Church Volunteer Accused Of Molesting Young Girl,
Lawsuit against Mormons set for mediation,
One Man's Brutal Encounter With Sexual Abuse In the Mormon Church,
Police say LDS bishop used trust to molest sisters,
Missionary sued in alleged sex abuse,
2 men sue Mormons, Scouts over abuse,
Ex-choir member charged with lewdness with minor,
Lawsuit filed against church claims abuse,
Set adrift,
Man Sues LDS Church Claiming Abuse By Home Teacher,
Former LDS Missionary Sentenced for Forcible Sexual Abuse,
Former Mormon youth counselor sentenced to six months in prison,
LDS Church to appeal verdict on sex abuse,
LDS Church told to pay $4.2 million in abuse case,
Church liable in girls' abuse,
Former Mormon missionary spared prison in Vegas child sex case,
LDS Church Missionary Accused Of Sexual Abuse,
Second church volunteer arrested in child abuse probe,
Mormon Church Worker Charged With Child Sex Abuse,
LDS Teacher, Sheriff's Employee Accused of Abusing Girl,
Family Sues Mormon Church,
Abuse alleged in Mormon lawsuit,
Former Mormon stake president pleads guilty to soliciting Internet sex with teen,
Church not responsible for abusers,
Court asked to revisit church ruling,
Former Bishop Charged With Sex Abuse Fired From Corrections Job,
Former West Valley LDS Bishop Accused of Sex Abuse,
Former Mormon missionary in Vegas indicted on child sex charges,
Teacher Charged: Suspect's Computer Examined,
Mormon missionary accused of fondling girls at Vegas church,
Mormon missionary accused of fondling girls at Vegas church,
Former Mormon bishop busted,
Mormon Church sued again regarding child sexual abuse,
Mormon Church accused of failure to report sexual abuse,
LDS Church Is Targeted In Lawsuit,
Mormon Leader Denounces Sex Abuse,
Sex Abuse Lawsuit Is Settled by Mormons for $3 Million,
Sex Case May Pry Open Finances of LDS Church,
Crisis of Identity,
Judge orders Mormons to provide sex-abuse records,
Pressure to Forgive Challenges Mormon Families, Divides Wards,
Sexual abuse of children in the Mormon Church,
Clergy Ignores Victims, Allege LDS Plaintiffs,
Mormon psychologist's recanting about church flaw puzzles some,
June 17, 2004 • Molly Ivins FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
AUSTIN, Texas - Such comfort. At the close of the G-8 summit, described by President Bush as 'very successful' (except we didn't get anything we wanted), the president offered us comfort on the uncomfortable topic of torture: 'Look, I'm going to say it one more time. Full Story
June 23, 2004 • David Brooks THE NEW YORK TIMES
When Bill Clinton was 8, he started taking himself to church. When he was 10, he publicly committed himself to Jesus. As a boy, he begged his Sunday school teacher to take him to see Billy Graham. And as anybody watching his book rollout knows, he still exudes religiosity. Full Story
June 23, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah has dropped plans to write his own constitutional amendment to allow state legislatures to decide if they will legally honor gay marriages performed in another state, throwing his full support Full Story
June 24, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
In a June 17 letter to the editor, Toni Netzler declared that those who argue against gay marriage need to leave their god out of it. If you take a minute to think about that statement you will realize that it is meaningless. Full Story
June 26, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
In politics, as in life, timing is everything. Republicans in the U.S. Senate are pushing hard to get a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage to the floor by July 12. That would force Sen. Full Story
June 28, 2004 • Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells Salt Lake Tribune Columnists
You might recall that last year the College Republicans at Utah State University held an "Affirmative Action bake sale" on campus, charging minorities and women less for the bakery items than male Caucasians as a dig on Affirmative Action programs. Full Story
July 1, 2004 • Molly Ivins FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
When it comes to religion, I've always believed it's more important to walk the walk than to talk the talk. I come from a tradition (Episcopal) that considers it rather in bad taste to wear your religion on your sleeve, presumably from Matthew, Chapter 6, Verses 5 and 6. Full Story
July 1, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
Fort Herriman Days was supposed to be a celebration of the best of patriotic, small-town America - complete with cotton candy and fireworks. But free speech was another matter entirely. Full Story
July 2, 2004 • The Associated Press
DENVER - An appeals court threw out a judge's order Thursday that barred a woman who left a lesbian relationship from teaching her adopted daughter anything that might be considered 'homophobic. Full Story
July 3, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
Utahns will have to choose between compassion and religion when deciding whether to amend the state's constitution to ban gay marriage. Full Story
July 3, 2004 • Compiled by Peggy Fletcher Stack
Some 4,700 people attended this year's Unitarian Universalist Association's annual convention in Long Beach, Calif. Gay marriage was strongly endorsed by representatives of the 225,000-member, Boston-based religious organization. Full Story
July 6, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
MASSACHUSETTS Statewide ban on smoking at workplace officially begins BOSTON - A statewide indoor smoking ban covering workplaces, bars and restaurants went into effect Monday throughout Massachusetts, and public health officials said they plan to aggressively pursue violators. Full Story
July 7, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - Reading from the Bible on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch endorsed a federal judicial nominee who wrote that wives should have a subordinate role in marriage, with the Utah Republican emphasizing "millions and millions of people will agree with" that view. Full Story
July 9, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
FLORIDA Defendant sentenced in abortion clinic bomb plot FORT LAUDERDALE - A man who was accused of plotting to fire bomb abortion clinics, churches and gay bars was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison.Full Story
July 9, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
As with every issue, the question pertaining to the state amendment to ban gay marriage needs to be properly framed. In The Tribune's July 3 story, Pros and cons of gay marriage ban, reporter Rebecca Walsh framed the question as choosing between compassion and religion. Full Story
July 9, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
A brief in Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune listed the wrong location for Utah Musical Theatre's production of "Triumph of Love," which opens tonight in Ogden. The show will be staged at the Allred Theatre in the Browning Performing Arts Center on the Weber State University campus. Full Story
July 12, 2004 • David Broder
WASHINGTON -- On the day that John Edwards joined John Kerry on the Democratic ticket, President Bush told an audience in Edwards' home state of North Carolina that he was confident its voters would realize that "the senator from Massachusetts [Kerry] doesn't share their values." Full Story
July 12, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
For years I thought my tithing money went to build new churches, care for the poor and needy, even pay employees of the church. Boy, was I wrong. I now understand that $1. Full Story
July 12, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - It's an arranged marriage and here comes the divide. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a bellwether vote on a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage this week, an exercise fueled more by cultural symbolism than political reality, since members Full Story
July 13, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - Debate in the U.S. Senate began Monday over whether marriage is between a man and a woman, but it took an unexpected turn into the question of marriage between one man and many women: polygamy. Full Story
July 13, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
There is no constitutional basis for denying gay couples marriage, and every constitutional reason why our government should actively pursue legalizing gay marriage to give gay men and lesbians their rights as equal citizens of the United States. Full Story
July 13, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Why are there so many people in Utah who believe they have the right to express their opinions, but the LDS Church and its members do not? Whenever the church makes a statement (LDS backs amendment against gay marriage, July 8), the haters step forth with a booming voice, whip in hand, to chastise them. Full Story
July 14, 2004 • The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Short on votes and beset by internal divisions, Senate Republicans struggled Tuesday to salvage a respectable defeat for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, an issue that President Bush pushed toward the top of the election-year agenda. Full Story
July 15, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - The Senate's partisan showdown over gay marriage fizzled Wednesday as Republicans failed to muster enough support to even put their proposed constitutional amendment to a vote. Full Story
July 15, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Am I the only Tribune reader who is sick of all of the anti-LDS rhetoric being published in the Forum? Many people seem to be upset that the church has an opinion on the gay marriage debate. Full Story
July 16, 2004 • Robyn Blumner ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Sen. John Edwards can thank his 'two Americas' speech for positioning him in the go-to spot for the vice presidency.Full Story
July 18, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
How low can you go? To hold offices, you must be a certain age: l President: 35 l U.S. senator: 30 l U.S. Full Story
July 18, 2004 • Carolyn Tanner Irish
"Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, And respect the dignity of every human being?" - from the Baptismal Covenant, Episcopal Book of Common Prayer Recent statements of Utah leaders in both the dominant church and the dominant political party supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage prompt me to respond publicly. Full Story
July 18, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Joseph Young (Forum, July 14) wonders what the hullaballoo over the Gay Marriage Amendment is all about. It's about bigotry and hate, Mr. Young. Darrell Johnson Salt Lake City Full Story
July 18, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I want to clarify misleading information concerning the LDS Church's support of the amendment designed to ban gay marriage. The church's support of this amendment does not qualify as a political agenda. Full Story
July 18, 2004 • Bryce Christensen
Who anticipated the rapid sequence of events that in early 2004 brought hundreds of homosexual couples - in Massachusetts, California, New York, Oregon and elsewhere - before officials willing to pronounce them married? Sympathetic observers have lauded these couples for their bravery; the unsympathetic have marveled at their brazenness. Full Story
July 19, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
So the LDS Church announced its support July 7 for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage as an institution solely between a man and a woman, and some people are reacting as if this were heresy. Full Story
July 21, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
FLORIDA Lesbians sue to make their marriage legal in all states TAMPA - A lesbian couple who married in Massachusetts sued the federal government Tuesday to have their union legally recognized in the rest of the country.Full Story
July 21, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
It is unfortunate that Mr. Naylor (Forum, July 15) has so badly misunderstood the point of recent letters about the LDS Church position on gay marriage. These letters haven't challenged the right of the LDS Church to have an opinion on gay marriage. Ms. Full Story
July 22, 2004 • The New York Times
TORONTO - Two Toronto women who were among the first same-sex couples to marry in Canada are now seeking what may be the first Canadian same-sex divorce. Full Story
July 22, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Richard Cheney states in his July 19 Forum letter that, “I believe the LDS Church's 'Proclamation on the Family' ought to comprise the text of the proposed amendment.” This comment was in regard to his desire for this text to make up the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Full Story
July 23, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
While federal lawmakers could not agree on a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman, state legislators are plowing ahead. Full Story
July 23, 2004 • By Mary Fitzgerald and Alan Cooperman The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The House approved a bill Thursday to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over same-sex marriage cases, despite warnings by opponents that the measure is unconstitutional and would open the floodgates to efforts preventing judges from ruling on other issues, from gun control to abortion. Full Story
July 23, 2004 • By Heather May The Salt Lake Tribune
Rocky Anderson is taking on the state establishment and apparently defying predictions - that were reality until recently - that he would be a mellower mayor in his second term. In other words, Rocky's back. Full Story
July 24, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
The differences between the Democrats and Republicans are not black and white, as extremists from both parties paint them. The differences are more pewter and battleship grey. Full Story
July 28, 2004 • By Dan Harrie The Salt Lake Tribune
BOSTON - Democrats approved their national party platform Tuesday almost entirely under the radar - and with good reason. That's the way the script, bland as it is, was written. Full Story
July 30, 2004 • By Carl P. Leubsdorf The Dallas Morning News
BOSTON - John Kerry appealed for support Thursday in ''the most important election of our lifetime,'' vowing to ''restore trust and credibility to the White House'' and improve the lives of middle-class Americans. Full Story
July 30, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Trying to reassure a frightened, troubled friend that you can make everything all right can be received in one of two ways: You are just what the doctor ordered, or you need to have your head examined. Full Story
August 1, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I find it interesting how the conservative right is always able to craft every discussion into an argument about what is or is not the behavior of a “good American.” Every issue seems to be debated in terms of what a good American should do, think, or say. Full Story
August 2, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Where is the Situation Room in Crawford, Texas? Why does President Bush need so many “work-at-home days?” We are at war. Our soldiers are being killed, many have no body armor, and our president is on vacation. Full Story
August 4, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
WEST VIRGINIA Prosecutor says workers didn't torture chickens MORGANTOWN - The prosecutor investigating mistreatment of chickens at a slaughterhouse said Tuesday that he does not believe what he has seen so far amounts to torture. Full Story
August 4, 2004 • Knight Ridder News Service
DALLAS - President Bush reached out to Roman Catholic voters on Tuesday, telling a convention of Catholic activists that he considers them vital allies in his efforts to support religious charities, defend traditional marriage and promote a ''culture of life'' in America. Full Story
August 5, 2004 • By Steven Thomma Knight Ridder News Service
WASHINGTON - Gay marriage has been the sleeper issue of the election year thus far, but a surprising surge of gay-marriage opponents to the polls in Missouri on Tuesday suggests that an issue that went nowhere in Congress is resonating in the country. Full Story
August 7, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
Legal training trumped political self-interest when three candidates for attorney general issued a rare joint statement Friday against a proposed amendment to the Utah Constitution meant to block gay marriage. Full Story
August 9, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
If you believe that gay and lesbian couples should be able to live together, have insurance and estate benefits and should be able to visit and care for each other in hospitals, then you must vote NO on Amendment 3. Amendment 3 goes too far. Full Story
August 10, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
If you believe that gay and lesbian couples should be able to live together, have insurance and estate benefits and should be able to visit and care for each other in hospitals, then you must vote NO on Amendment 3. Amendment 3 goes too far. Full Story
August 10, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Three candidates who would be Utah's attorney general have passed a key test for anyone who wants to be your lawyer. They have told their clients something that they may not have wanted to hear. Full Story
August 10, 2004 • By Nicole Warburton The Salt Lake Tribune
"Liberalism," and a decline in "moral principle" led to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision in February recognizing gay couples' right to marry, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday. Full Story
August 12, 2004 • By Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press
Circus ban defeated A proposal from a 15-year-old girl to bar circus animal acts within Denver city limits was soundly defeated, 72 percent to 28 percent. Full Story
August 13, 2004 • By Dean E. Murphy The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that more than 4,000 same-sex marriage licenses issued in San Francisco are ''void and of no legal effect,'' dealing a heavy blow to gay rights groups. Full Story
August 14, 2004 • By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune
Down, but still out - and hopeful. Gay Utahns are taking a philosophical view of the California Supreme Court decision Thursday voiding marriage licenses issued by San Francisco. Full Story
August 15, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Anti-gay marriage group wants AG candidate debate A political issues committee in favor of amending Utah's Constitution to block recognition of gay marriage is challenging three candidates for attorney general to debate the issue. Full Story
August 15, 2004 • By R. Dennis Potter
In Utah, the Republican Party sits in the driver seat. Many say that this is due to the dominant Mormon culture. If this is true, then it is a paradox. Mormon doctrine fits better with policies advocated by Democrats than it does with those advocated by Republicans. Full Story
August 15, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
There's an old joke that in Utah, marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman. Unfortunately, three plaintiffs in a lawsuit want to make that joke a reality. Full Story
August 15, 2004 • By Gary and Millie Watts
Utahns don't want their constitution to hurt co-workers, friends and relatives. But that's exactly what Amendment 3 would do. It goes far beyond defining marriage and takes away basic rights and protections from real Utahns and their families. Full Story
August 15, 2004 • By Judy Holland Hearst Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The November election is expected to trigger an unusually robust voter turnout amid deep concern over the economy, the war in Iraq and terrorism. Full Story
August 16, 2004 • by Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells Salt Lake Tribune columnists
Sen. Orrin Hatch will be going for an unprecedented sixth term in two years. Former state Republican Party executive director Dave Hansen tells us he has been hired to run Hatch's 2006 re-election campaign. Full Story
August 19, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is feeling the brunt of political fallout for speaking against a proposed amendment to the state constitution meant to block gay marriage. Full Story
August 19, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
If John Kennedy were writing Profiles in Courage today, there might well be a chapter about Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. Mr. Full Story
August 20, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
* The 26-mile Mormon Handcart Trail extends from Sixth Crossing to Rock Creek Hollow near South Pass, Wyo. A story published in the Aug. 10 Salt Lake Tribune included an incorrect end point for the trail. Full Story
August 21, 2004 • By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service
When President Bush appeared this month before a Catholic men's organization, he basked in the approval of an enthusiastic subset of Catholic voters that he and Sen. John Kerry covet - but which neither can definitively claim. Full Story
August 22, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Maybe I'm just a stickler for truth in advertising, but when a group calling itself Yes! For Marriage promises a rally to prove how the masses in Utah support a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, I expect a real show. Full Story
August 22, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Columnist George Will once said that football combines the two worst aspects of American culture - violence and committee meetings. Full Story
August 23, 2004 • By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - Utah's political players have contributed more than $4.3 million to candidates up for election in 2004. Full Story
August 24, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
TEXAS Army builds bridge to help U.S.-Mexico border patrol EL INDIO - The U.S. military is building a $2. Full Story
August 26, 2004 • The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Republicans endorsed an uncompromising position against gay unions Wednesday in a manifesto that contrasts with Vice President Dick Cheney's supportive comments about gay rights and the moderate face the party will show at next week's national convention. Full Story
August 27, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
Gov. Olene Walker is joining a growing number of Utah politicians troubled by a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage. Full Story
August 30, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
On moral issues, LDS Church leaders routinely make their feelings known - in sometimes sweeping statements that often leave details open to interpretation. Full Story
August 30, 2004 • By Travis Reed The Associated Press
In Utah politics, there is a different kind of religious right. Like their counterparts in other states, the ideology of Utah's overwhelmingly conservative population can be traced directly to the door of its church. Full Story
August 31, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
NEW YORK - Monday's prime-time speaker for the Republican National Convention, Rudy Giuliani, signed the law legalizing same-sex civil unions in New York City, is pro-choice and supports partial-birth abortions. Tonight's headliner, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also supports abortion rights, backs the gun-control provisions of the Brady Bill, is in favor of medicinal use of marijuana and approves of creating domestic partnerships for gays. Full Story
September 1, 2004 • By Steven Thomma Knight Ridder News Service
NEW YORK - Republicans might be unanimous in renominating President Bush for a second term and particularly enthusiastic about his leadership of the war on terrorism, but they are deeply split over other parts of his agenda. Full Story
September 1, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Help or hurt? Historians call Dick Cheney the most influential vice president ever, and perhaps the most polarizing. But he will use his speech tonight to remind America what a seasoned hand he is -- especially in contrast to his boyish Democratic counterpart, one-term Sen. John Edwards. Full Story
September 3, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
CALIFORNIA City criticizes ban on gay marriage in filing SAN FRANCISCO -- Twelve same-sex couples and the city filed legal papers Thursday that call California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, bigoted and archaic. Full Story
September 3, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I am about to get married and I'm concerned that my marriage will be devalued, given the morals of our current culture. Full Story
September 4, 2004 • By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune
It's a one word change: from "require" to "use." But, said Amanda Smith, president of the political action committee that lobbied for that change and other changes to Utah's Voter Guide, "one word can make a difference" between a "Yes" or "No" vote in November. Full Story
September 5, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
VATICAN CITY Pope reaffirms commitment against same-sex marriage Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage Saturday, telling the ambassador from Canada - where some provinces allow same-sex couples to wed - that such unions create a ''false understanding'' of marriage. Full Story
September 6, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Will the proponents of the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage please explain in concrete terms how, if the amendment passes, our marriage will be stronger in Utah than it would be in, say, Vermont? What exactly is the promised benefit? And if it comes at the price of denigrating Full Story
September 8, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Huntsman moving campaign headquarters The main campaign office of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. is moving to downtown Salt Lake City from the Huntsman corporate headquarters on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley. Full Story
Huntsman moving campaign headquarters The main campaign office of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. is moving to downtown Salt Lake City from the Huntsman corporate headquarters on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley. Full Story
September 8, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Acquiescence on important issues may not be hypocrisy, but in my opinion it's close. Where were our Utah Republican leaders, and like-minded leaders from around the country, when their party adopted a political platform so at odds with the thinking of the leaders who were “showcased” Full Story
September 12, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I am against Proposition 3, now and forever. It's not necessary. Utah has three separate laws prohibiting gay marriage. There are no judicial challenges to those laws in Utah. But if it is a constitutional amendment that must be done, let's do it right. In its zeal to curry political points with the far right and the Gayle Ruzika types, the Legislature did not do its homework. No hearings were held. Full Story
September 13, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Religion may be homophobic, but democratic government may not. Democracy is based on freedom, justice, and reason. Religion is based on obedience, morality and faith. The Constitution is the holy book for democracy, not the Bible. Religion can forbid gay marriage on scriptural grounds, but democracy cannot forbid civil unions on constitutional grounds. The wall separating church and state protects both from each other. Full Story
September 14, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
As conservatives rush to condemn gay marriage, let's consider that in fighting for the right to marry, gays manifest their support for the institution. Far from undermining it, they affirm that gay cohabitation should be governed by the same rules and limitations that apply to heterosexual unions. The political right, in pushing to ban gay marriage, says there will continue to be two kinds of sexual unions, those few to which marriage laws apply, and everything else. Full Story
September 17, 2004 • The Associated Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Manitoba became the fourth Canadian province to legalize same-sex marriage when a judge Thursday declared the province's current definition of marriage unconstitutional. Justice Douglas Yard's ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed last month by three couples, arguing that the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman was contrary to the provincial charter's equality provision. Full Story
September 18, 2004 • By Rhina Guidos The Salt Lake Tribune
In their first public debate seeking the governor's office, the two Utah political heirs talked about what they inherited from their fathers. "I got a dad with a big heart," said Jon Huntsman Jr. "From him, I'll always remember the importance of leading with your heart." "I learned the value of public service," said Scott Matheson Jr. Full Story
September 18, 2004 • The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. The literature shows a Bible with the word ''BANNED'' across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word ''ALLOWED. Full Story
September 20, 2004 • By Lynn Elber The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - ''The Sopranos'' became the first cable show to win the Emmy for best drama series Sunday and fellow HBO entry ''Angels in America'' received a record 11 awards as Fox's surprise comedy winner ''Arrested Development'' proved a rare bright spot for broadcast TV. Broadcast networks also collected performance awards for comedy series, but it was clear that cable's accomplishments were overshadowing the traditional networks. Full Story
September 23, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
WYOMING Camera-shy bull elk rams photographer YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - A bull elk charged and injured two people, including a tourist who took a flash photograph of the animal from less than 10 feet away. The 60-year-old Texas man was stuck by the elk's antlers Sunday at Mammoth Hot Springs, a popular area in Yellowstone National Park. Full Story
September 24, 2004 • By Jim Abrams The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House, in an emotionally and politically charged debate six weeks before the election, voted Thursday to protect the words ''under God'' in the Pledge of Allegiance from further court challenges. The legislation, promoted by GOP conservatives, would prevent federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from hearing cases challenging the words ''under God,'' a part of the pledge for the past 50 years. Full Story
September 24, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
AUSTIN - Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, is a subscriber to the theory that so-called ''values politics'' and lifestyle issues are just sophisticated versions of that old carnival con the shell game, in which the object is to keep the rube's eye off the shell with the pea under it. ''The trick never ages: The illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Full Story
September 26, 2004 • By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune
President Bush's election-year call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was like "a kick in the gut" for Patrick Guerriero. But it didn't make Guerriero, head of the 15,000-member gay Log Cabin Republicans, "any less Republican or inclined to become a Democrat. Full Story
September 27, 2004 • By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune
Beau Babka volunteered to man the Democratic Party's State Fair booth, tucked in the most remote northeast corner of the park. In the span of an hour, maybe two dozen people trickled by. A few stopped to make wisecracks. "I have to shake the hand of a Democrat, because there aren't many of us left," says a middle-aged woman. Chimes another, "Nothing like living in a state where your vote doesn't count. Full Story
October 1, 2004 • By David Espo The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day. The vote was 227-186 - 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled. ''God created Adam and Eve, He didn't create Adam and Steve,'' said Rep. Full Story
October 2, 2004 • By Connie Coyne Salt Lake Tribune Columnist
If you were to go up to the eighth floor of the Tribune Building, you would find Malin Foster figuratively hip-deep in e-mail and snail-mail letters for the Public Forum. Foster, a veteran Utah journalist, is the man who picks and edits the letters that appear every day on The Tribune's editorial page. Lucky, lucky man. This week he is in the midst of what he calls "Michael Moore II. Full Story
October 3, 2004 • By James Kuhnhenn and William Douglas The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. - As the presidential campaign enters its final month, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush on Saturday offered starkly different views of the economy in a deliberate shift from Iraq to domestic issues. Full Story
October 3, 2004 • By Christy Karras The Salt Lake Tribune
As lesbians nearing middle age, the Indigo Girls might seem unlikely pop stars. But to their enthusiastic fans at Kingsbury Hall on Friday night, the guitar-playing singers proved why they've continued to sell out concerts year after year. They also provided a dose of activist energy, rallying the crowd against the storage of nuclear waste on the Goshute Indian reservation in Utah's west desert and a proposed state constitutional amendment opposing gay marriage. Full Story
October 3, 2004 • By Heather May The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake County government is about parks, recreation centers, social services, garbage pickup. And gay marriage? Salt Lake County mayoral candidate Merrill Cook recently raised the so-called wedge issue. He sees it as a way to distinguish himself from front-runner Peter Corroon - even though Cook and Corroon have somewhat similar positions. Full Story
October 5, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
Rather than get bogged down in complicated questions about the legal ramifications of Amendment 3, supporters of the proposed marriage amendment say voters must sign on and change the Utah Constitution this year. Otherwise, Utahns' commitment to traditional marriage might be questioned. Full Story
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LOUISIANA Judge throws out gay-marriage ban BATON ROUGE - A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, less than three weeks after it was overwhelmingly approved by the voters. District Judge William Morvant said the amendment was flawed as drawn up by the Legislature because it had more than one purpose: banning not only gay marriage but also civil unions. Full Story
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EDUCATION EDWARDS: Said schools are failing, administration doesn't fund mandates. CHENEY: Praised the administration's No Child Left Behind Act. ECONOMY EDWARDS: The Bush administration is first in 70 years to have lost jobs. CHENEY: Edwards is wrong, 1.7 million jobs created last year. Full Story
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CLEVELAND - Sen. John Edwards accused the Bush administration Tuesday night of bungling the war in Iraq and presiding over a historic loss of jobs. ''Your facts are just wrong,'' Vice President Dick Cheney shot back in crackling campaign debate. In a clash at close quarters, the Democratic vice presidential candidate accused Cheney of ''not being straight'' with the public about a war that has claimed more than 1,000 American lives. Full Story
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Supporters of Utah's marriage amendment are trying to cast the amendment's opponents as gay-loving carpetbaggers. In a televised debate Tuesday night and again on Wednesday, co-founders of the Yes on 3 Coalition claimed - without proof - that the Don't Amend Alliance will collect nearly $1 million from donors outside Utah who support a larger campaign to legalize gay marriage. Full Story
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Between "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune," the first televised salvo in Utah's culture war over gay marriage aired this week. Utahns for a Better Tomorrow, one of a coalition of four political issues committees organized in support of Amendment 3, paid $4,800 for a dozen 30-second slots to run Wednesday through tonight in the game show hour on KJZZ, Channel 14. Full Story
October 8, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I think that gay marriage should not be banned in the state of Utah. My opinion is if two people are in love, then it is their right by law to be married. One of the reasons that I feel this way is because a lot of my friends are gay. One of my best friends is gay and I know how much he loves his boyfriend. If that was taken away from him he would be so unhappy. Gay people feel the same way about each other and share the same emotions as straight couples do. Full Story
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II exhorted Christians on Friday to display signs of their faith more forcefully, contending the practice neither infringes on separation of church and state nor breeds intolerance. His comments appeared to be a clear reference to raging debates over laws such as France's recent ban on wearing Islamic headscarves, Jewish skull caps or large Christian crosses in schools. Full Story
October 10, 2004 • By Rebecca Walsh The Salt Lake Tribune
The conversation was brief when Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson first met Bruce Bastian. Eight years ago, Anderson was running for Congress and advocating gay-marriage rights. Bastian told the political hopeful he was too liberal. "There weren't a whole lot of people who discussed gay marriage at the time," Anderson says. "It was a very short conversation. Full Story
October 12, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Why is so much time, energy and, ultimately, money, being wasted on banning gay marriage, abortion and controversial speakers? If you are against gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex. If you are against abortion, don't have one. If you are against controversial speakers, don't buy a ticket. Young people seldom learn from what we say as much as from what we do. Full Story
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The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature; A Revised History of Homosexuality & Mormonism, 1840-1980, by Connell O'Donovan, © 1994, 2004
http://www.connellodonovan.com/lgbtmormons.html
The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature; A Revised History of Homosexuality & Mormonism, 1840-1980, by Connell O'Donovan, © 1994, 2004
http://www.connellodonovan.com/lgbtmormons.html
FOOTNOTES
1. Throughout this essay, unless quoting others, I capitalize "Lesbian", "Gay", and "Bisexual", as one way of affirming my belief that we have constructed an ethnic identity: a social and cultural system which includes, but is not limited to, a history, a language, and a political sensibility, and which drastically differs in many ways from that of the "Straight" community. By homosocial, I am referring to the spectrum of beliefs, attitudes, loci, signs, desires, and practices of the many aspects of Queerness. Homosocial specifically means the dynamic of a group of people of the same sex who socialize together. "Male bonding" is a form of homosociality. Other aspects of this "homo-continuum" include the homopolitical, homospiritual, homointellectual, homophysical, homoemotional, homophilic, homoerotic, and ultimately, the homosexual. Homophobia is literally an irrational, unfounded fear of homosexuals and homosexuality, while I define heterosexism as the assumption that all people are heterosexuals or ought to be. Both engender such practices as anti- Gay legislation, "reorientation" therapies, or passive, but debilitating silence.
2. T. Eugene Shoemaker, "Human Sexuality in Mormonism: Reflections from the Bishop's Couch; an Essay on Understanding," submitted for publication to Sunstone Magazine, Sunstone papers, b. 26, f. 20, no date, Special Collections, University of Utah Marriott Library.
3. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 56.
4. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 239 and 242.
5. The term "sister-wife" interestingly combines two intensely sensual, emotional and personal concepts: conjugality and sorority.
6. Gail Farr Casterline, "Ellis R.Shipp," in Vicky Burgess-Olson, ed., Sister Saints (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1978), p. 371.
9. Carol Lasser, "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth Century Female Friendship", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1988, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 161.
13. While Aurelia Spencer Rogers actually founded the first Primary organization, Louie Felt organized the second branch of it a month later in September, 1879. On June 19, 1880, Felt became the first General President of the Primary, and in 1890, called her lover, May Anderson, to be the General Secretary. May Anderson first suggested in 1893 that the Primary have its own church-sponsored publication, and in 1901, the Primary General Board finally received permission to begin publishing the Children's Friend with Anderson as editor. Felt and Anderson together conceived of the idea for the Primary Children's Hospital after seeing a disabled boy on the streets of Salt Lake City. In 1925, when Louie B. Felt was released as the Primary General President, her parttner May Anderson succeeded her in that position. For further details on the relationship and accomplishments of these two remarkable women, see their biographies in the following issues of the Children's Friend "Louie B. Felt", vol. 18 (December 18, 1919), pp. 404-417, "Mary and May", vol. 18 (December 18, 1919), pp. 418-422, "The New Presidency", vol. 24 (November 1925), pp. 21-23, "Louie B. Felt: A Tribute", vol. 24 (November 1925), pp. 422- 425, and "A Friend of the Children", vol. 39 (April 1940), pp. 146- 152; as well as Susan Staker Oman, "Nurturing LDS Primaries: Louie Felt and May Anderson, 1880-1940", Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol 49, no. 3, pp. 262- 275.
15. See I Samuel 18:1-4, and II Samuel 2:25-27. For discussions on David and Jonathan as historical signifiers of male- male desire and sexuality, see John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 105, 238-39, 252, and 299; and Richard Dellamora, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism University of North Carolina Press, 1990), p. 221.
17. For biographical information on Thomas, see "Biographical Note" accompanying the register for the Kate Thomas papers, donated to the Utah State Historical Society by her brother, U.S. Senator Elbert Thomas (D-Utah). Included in the Kate Thomas papers is another biography written by LeNae Peavey for a university class, entitled "Kate Thomas (1871- 1950). However, Ms. Peavey went to great lengths to avoid the Lesbian desire of Thomas's poetry.
18. "To _________", Record Journal of Love Poems, Kate Thomas Papers, Utah State Historical Society, Box 3, (Folder 5, p. 34.)
20. See commentary on the 1868 song, "Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store" in Jonathan Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (Cambridg, MA: Harper and Row, 1983) 315. Male dry goods clerks were stereotyped by Victorian America as effeminate and what we might today call "homosexual".
26. Interview with L.H. on August 8, 1988, and interview with J.B.B. on January 7, 1990. Cora's niece, Juli Dulmage, also emailed me on May 29, 1999 to let me know that in the 1960s one evening she was having dinner with her aunt Cora when Cora started to explain why she had never married but stopped mid-sentence and never told her niece why. The possibility of lesbianism had not crossed Dulmage's mind until she read an earlier version of this essay and now admits that her aunt may have been a Lesbian although any Lesbian relationships she had must have been "excruciatingly discrete". See also emails to me from Peter Kasius dated May 6, 7, 25, and 26, 1999 for more biographical data and family anecdotal material.
27. For biographical information on Cora Kasius, see "Utah Woman to Join Dutch Welfare Group", Deseret News 1945.
28. D. Michael Quinn identifies Fanny Fern as non-Mormon feminist Grata P. Willis Eldredge Parton and claims that this brief essay was originally published in the New York Ledger (see D. Michael Quinn, Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996) p. 108. Coincidentally, "fern" is an archcaic, somewhat derogotory word for a Gay man, similar to pansy or fairy.
29. See the December 31, 1877 letter from Alice Blackwell to her sister-in-law Kitty Blackwell for an almost identical description of the painfulness of manipulative "smashing" at an eastern women's college, in Katz, Almanac, p. 176. For another amazingly similar non-Mormon description of "smashing", see Yale University student newspaper of 1873, quoted in Nancy Salhi, "Smashing: Women's Relationships Before the Fall," Chrysalis (1979), 8:21.
32. George Wehner, A Curious Life, Horace Liveright Press: New York, 1929, pp. 397-400 and Michael Morris, Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova, New York: Abbeville Press, 1991, pp. 191 and 195-197.
33. For information on John C. Bennett, I am indebted to the Sam Taylor Papers, ms. 50, (Special Collections, University of Utah Marriott Library. On all his villainy, see his brilliant biography by Andrew F. Smith, The Saintly Scoundrel: The Life and Times of Dr. John Cook Bennett, University of Illinois Press, 1997.
34. Samuel Taylor papers, handwritten notes on typed page of rough draft of Nightfall at Nauvoo unnumbered first page of Chapter VII, "Every Species of Abomination," ms. 50, Box 29, Bk. 3.
37. For Danites in drag, see The Wasp, July 27, 1842, as quoted in Andrew F. Smith, The Saintly Scoundrel: the Life and Times of Dr. John Cook Bennett (University of Illinois Press, 1997) p. 94. "Bennettiana: or the Microscope with Double Diamond Lenses," The Wasp, July 27,1842, on microfilm at the University of Utah Marriott Library, emphasis is in original. Sam Taylor to Dr. T. Edgar Lyon, Sam Taylor papers, January 31, 1969.
39. L. F. Andrews, Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, Vol. I (Baker-Trisler, Des Moines, 1903) pp. 27-31 and 87-91; online at http://books.google.com/books?id=c3kUAAAAYAAJ&pg. J.P. Munro-Fraser, History of Alameda County, California (Myron W. Wood, Oakland, 1883) p. 871; Smith, Saintly Scoundrel, pp. 12 and 27; 1870 Census of Santa Cruz CA, Santa Cruz Public Library. For "chum", Dr. John Egan email to Connell O'Donovan, January 24, 2005.
Note also that my own 3rd great grand father, Robart Cooper, who was about 10 years older than John C. Bennett and from Westmore County PA, was an early settler of Byrd, Ohio in the 1820s, where he met Alexander Hill and according to a love letter currently located in a library there, became lovers. Throughout their lives, where one moved, the other followed. They also promised to name all their male descendants after each other so Robert Cooper's eldest son was named Alexander Hill Cooper and Alexander Hill's eldest son was named Robert Cooper Hill; indeed, some 175 years later, my father's and my middle name is Hill in honor of their love for each other.
40. William H. Holyoak to John Taylor, October 9, 1886, quoted in correspondence of Raymond W. Taylor to Samuel W. Taylor, 7 June 1972, 2-3, Taylor Family Papers, box 20, file 3.
42. For Taylor's excommunication notice, see Deseret News, 28 Aug. 1886. For rumors published in the newspaper see "City and Neighborhood" column of the Salt Lake Tribune, 22, 24, 29 August, and 2 September, 1886.
43. Thomas Taylor to John Taylor and Angus M. Cannon, September 22, 1886, Taylor Family Papers, p. 5.
49. Taylor had three wives, and Hunsaker had two. Both lost plural wives in divorce proceedings immediately following revelations of their sexual contact with other men. Christopher Cramer, Salt Lake's "Pioneer Florist", was another polygamist who was also a "queer", as one elderly informant called him in my interview with Cynthia Blood in 1989.
49A. For Arthur Bruce Taylor's "coming out", see Quinn, pp. 40-1. For the Richfield "ring", see Quinn, pp. 276. James Henry Moyle, "My History", as quoted in Gene A. Sessions (ed.), Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle, as excerpted athttp://www.signaturebooks.com/
50. Daniel Shellabarger, written comments on the Frederick Jones trial in my possession, April 23, 1994.
51. For accounts of the Jones trial and aftermath, see Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, "A Heavy Case", 27 October 1864; "That Case", 28 October 1864; "The Death of a Sodomite", 31 October 1864; Daily Union Vedette, 1 November 1864; and Deseret News, 31 October 1864 and 2 November 1864.
53. Brigham Young to Daniel H. Wells and Brigham Young Jr., 18 November 1864, in "Correspondence", Latter-day Saints Millennial Star 27 (7 January 1865): 14, as quoted in Quinn, Same-sex Dynamics, pp. 273 and 296.
58. For biographical information on these converts to Mormonism, see passenger lists for the Mormon emigrant ship "Horizon" (microfilm no. 025,691), International Geneaglogical Index entries for Lancashire, England (for Carter) and Sussex, England (for Edwards), and Family Group Sheets for their families, all at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
60. Prior to beginning any research on Stephens, I had heard from four unrelated sources the oral tradition passed down through other Gay Mormons, that this famous Mormon and Horace Ensign of the Tabernacle Choir, were Gay.
61. "Evan Bach: A True Story for Little Folk, by a pioneer", Children's Friend 18 (October1919) p. 387.
62. "Evan Bach", p. 389. See also the accompanying intimate photograph of the two young men, ca. 1875, when both were about 21years old, on p. 388. On Stephens' impersonation of the "old maid", see "Yesterday's Concerts," Deseret News, 30 September 1882; Evan Stephens, "To the Choir Members," Deseret Evening News, 31 August 1887, p. 5. Ray L. Bergman, The Children Sang: The Life and Music of Evan Stephens (Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing Inc., 1992), pp. 6, 83-86.
63. Dean C. Jessee, Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons (Deseret Book Company, 1974); Quinn, Same Sex Dynamics, pp. 135, 230-231; Improvement Era, "In Memory of Three", (April 1931).
63A. Ronald W. Walker, "Raining Pitchforks: Brigham Young As Preacher", Sunstone, 39 (May-June 1983); for Grow's cross-dressing, see Karl Brooks, “The Life of Amos Milton Musser” (M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1961), p. 71.
65. United States Reports, Supreme Court, 98, pp. 166-68, as quoted in Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygramy, p. 110.
68. "Art Decoration: Oscar Wilde Enlightens a Large Audience on the Subject," Salt Lake Tribune, April 11, 1882.
70. Helen L. Warner, "Oscar Wilde's Visit to Salt Lake City," Utah Historical Quarterly 55 (Fall 1987): 333-334.
71. Deseret News 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 24, 26, 30 April; 1, 3, 4, 7, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 May 1895.
73. Report of the 68th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (October 1897), pp. 65-66; for contention amongst the Twelve Apostles, see Edward L. Lyman, "The Alienation of an Apostle from His Quorum: The Moses Thatcher Case", reprinted in John Sillito and Susan Staker (eds.), Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002).
74. Journal of Discourses, vol. 20, p. 200. Interestingly, early Anglican theologian John Bale wrote in "Apology against a Rank Papist" (London, 1550, xxvii, xii [v]), that the celibacy of Catholic clergy had set marriage and virginity "at variance" and replaced them with "two unhappy gestes, called whoredom and buggery", making celibacy the cause of homosexuality. Bale later wrote in "The Pageant of Popes" (London, 1574, p. 36) that in his visitations to English Catholic monasteries, which had been ordered by Henry VIII, he found "such swarmes of whoremongers, ruffians, filthie parsouns, giltye of sinne against nature, Ganimedes [young, effeminate homosexual men]...and unmarried all, so that thou wouldest thincke that there were a newer Gomorrah among them"; at Battle Abbey he found some twenty monks "gilty of sinne against nature" - which sins included homosexuality, prostitution...and polygamy!
75A. D. Michael Quinn, Elder Statesman: A Biography of J. Reuben Clark, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002) p. 191 and p. 488, note 55; and D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997) p. 307.
76. Eldred G. Smith, who replaced Joseph F. Smith as Patriarch to the Church, claimed that the young man was named Norville Service. George Albert Smith diary, 10 July and 16 Sept. 1946; Joseph F. Smith diary, 10 July 1946; J. Reuben Clark office diary, 30 July and 16 September 1946; typescripts in my possession.
79. David O. McKay office diary, April 10, May 9, and July 10, 1957; First Presidency files, 1959; typescripts in my possession
80. "Rexburg Investigates Moral Practices", (Pocatello) Idaho State Journal, September 14, 1950, p. 8. I have thoroughly reviewed all issues of the weekly Rexburg Standard newspaper from July to November 1950, and I could find no article announcing this anti-homosexual investigation. However, in the microfilm copy that I used (borrowed from "Ricks College", now BYU Idaho through interlibrary loan), two articles had been blacked out with duct tape before being microfilmed, so it is possible those referred to this investigation and had been censored by Ricks. I did note that every single issue had at least one (and sometimes two or more) article or opinion piece rabidly opposing Communism. Both the Ricks College and the Rexburg High School studentbodies were widely involved in the "Freedom Crusade" to raise money for a "shrine to freedom" in Berlin. Most of the anti-Communist articles had a paranoid, almost hysterical tone to them, as if huge numbers of Communists were poised just outside Rexburg, ready to invade and conquer this Mormon bastion of Capitalism and "liberty". J. Reuben Clark diary, September 11, 1950. Stephen L. Richards office diary, October 29, 1951. For Storer, see "Homosexuals find understanding at Boise church", Idaho Statesman, September 2, 1978, p. 5B.
81. Clark, "Home and the Building of Home Life," Relief Society Magazine 39 (December 1952): pp. 793-4; Conference Reports, October 1954, p. 79.
82. John Gerassi, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City, (New York: Macmillan, 1966). Ken Storer email to Connell O'Donovan, September 16, 2004.
83. "Police Nab 23 in 27-Day Morals Drive", Salt Lake Tribune, May 29, 1958; see also "Suspect Held in Boys Morals Ring", Salt Lake Tribune, February 13, 1958, p. 10; http://historytogo.utah.gov/jblee.html; Congressional Record, Vol. 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix pp. A1-A2842.
84A. My main source has been the online autobiography of Dr. Dorius My Four Lives, formerly online at joeldorius.com; however since his death that web domain no longer exists due to unpaid fees. I have obatined some legal rights to its material and hope to upload it on the web in the future. Other sources for this biogrpahical material are: "Joel Dorius - gay professor in '60s porn scandal", San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 19, 2006, p. B8, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/obituaries/20dorius.html and http://familysearch.org.
85. Edward L. Kimball and Andrew E. Kimball, Jr., Spencer W. Kimball: Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1977), p. 381.
86.Spencer W. Kimball, "A Counselling Problem in the Church", July 10, 1964, LDS Church Archives. For Callis's early role in dealing with homosexuality among Mormons, see Kimball and Kimball, Spencer W. Kimball, p. 271. For arrests of Utah homosexuals published in newspapers at that time, see for example "Suspect Held in Boys Morals Ring", Salt Lake Tribune, 13 February 1958, and "Police Nab 23 in 27-Day Morals Drive", Salt Lake Tribune, 29 May 1958.
88. Spencer W. Kimball, "A Counselling Problem in the Church"; The Miracle of Forgiveness, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969), Chapter Six, "The Crime Against Nature,"; "New Hope fo Transgressors", 1970, "New Horizons for Homosexuals," 1971, and "A Letter to a Friend," 1978, all published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Minor works and speeches of Kimball against homosexuality include "Love versus Lust," January 5, 1965, LDS Church Archives; "Voices of the Past, of the Present, of the Future," Ensign, 1 (June 1971); "God Will Not Be Mocked," Ensign, 4 (Nov. 1974); "The Foundations of Righteousness," Ensign, 7 (Nov. 1977); and "President Kimball Speaks Out on Morality," Ensign, 10 (Nov. 1980).
90. A similar policy was still in place in August 1980, when I was required to meet with General Authority Paul H. Dunn before I could proceed with receiving a mission call. Dunn met me in his office in the Church Administration Building for approximately one and a half minutes total, proclaimed me "clean and worthy", and commanded me to marry "one of the righteous daughters of Zion" upon my return from my mission. He bore solemn witness to me that the experience of "normal sex" with a woman would "cure" me. As a memento of our extremely brief meeting, I asked him to autograph my Triple Combination, which I still have.
92. John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 162.
96. Spencer W. Kimball, "Love versus Lust", BYU Speeches of the Year, 1964-1965 (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1965), pp. 1-30, esp. 24.
97. Edward L. Kimball indicated that "Horizons" was based on a 1966 letter, but a brief quote from the "12/20/65" letter on p. 274 is also found in "Horizons"; see p. 632, notation for item 71-19; The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Edward L. Kimball, editor, (Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, 1982).
99. Cloy Jenkins in The Advocate, February 22, 1978, p. 11.
100. David Buerger interview with Bill Marshall interview, March 22, 1978, copy in my possession. Duane E. Jeffrey interview with Victor L. Brown, Jr., December 21, 1977, copy of notes in my possession.
101. D. Michael Quinn, Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996) p. 382 and footnote 81; and http://familysearch.org for vital statistics on Desmond. Obituary in the Spokesman-Review, May 12, 1983. For the Eucharistic Catholic Church, see their 1972 pamphlet online at http://www.lgbtran.org/View.asp?ID=BLD&Page=1; for the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ, see Rosemary Winters, "Gay Mormons find acceptance in Restoraion Church", Salt Lake Tribune, June 5, 2004, available online at http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jun/06052004/saturday/saturday.asp
102. First Presidency Circular Letter, March 19, 1970, LDS Church Archives, typescript in my possession.
104. Homosexuality: Welfare Services Packet I (Salt Lake City: Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973), n.p.
105. Interview with Bill Marshall, March 22, 1978. Copy of notes in my possession. Antonio A. Feliz, journal excerpts for June 1980, copy in my possession.
106. See:
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2660
http://www.xq.com/apollomedia/miriam.html
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107. Boyd K. Packer, To Young Men Only (Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1976) n.p.
108. Long Road to Freedom: the Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, Mark Thompson ed. (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994), pp. xxiii, 214-5. The day before Harris died "from a rare form of cancer", he told another staff member, "The quality of my life has been reduced to such a miserable level that I don't think it's worth going on", (p. 215).
109A."Gays will sponsor rights convention", Utah Daily Chronicle, June 3, 1977; "Convention for gays canceled by Hotel Utah", Deseret News, June 9, 1977; "S.L. Hotel Cancels 'Rights' Convention Sponsored by Gays" by Roger Bennet, Ogden Standard Examiner, June 9, 1977; "Hotel Utah Cancels Homosexual Parley", Salt Lake Tribune, June 9, 1977; "Speaker Arrives for Gay Confab", Salt Lake Tribune, June 10, 1977; "Gays get place to meet", Deseret News, June 10, 1977, B-5; "Gays open S.L. convention, Deseret News, June 11, 1977, p. A-4; and "Homosexuals Open Symposium", Salt Lake Tribune, June 11, 1977. For the Dade County victory, see "Heavy vote on gay issue", Deseret News, June 7, 1977, p. A-7; and "Voters repal gay rights law: Vindicated, singer says", Deseret News, June 8, 1977, pp. A-1 and A-6. For Senator Hatch's confusing statement about Bryant, see Ben Williams, "The Anita Bryant Fairgrounds Affair", online at http://slmetro.com/2005/6/williams_ben.shtml <accessed July 18, 2007>.
Note the hypocrisy in the fact that just two weeks after canceling the Gay rights convention reservations, a large convention of "born-again Christian" businessmen, under the auspices of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, met undisturbed at the Hotel Utah, even though the vast majority of those in attendance bore immense animosity toward Mormonism, which they view as a non-Christian, indeed Satanic cult. See convention report as politely covered in "Get to know Jesus, ex-grid star says", Deseret News, June 24, 1977, p. B-6.
110. For the governor's refusal to study Gay rights issues, see "Local 'Gays' Ask for Utah Study, Salt Lake Tribune, June 9, 1977. Bruce Steed, "Hollow Homes", Sunstone, no. 6, pp. 7 and 48.
111. Bill Sievert, "The Killing of Mr. Greenjeans", Mother Jones, Sept/Oct 1977, pp. 39-56. Rev. Malcolm Boyd, "As An Advocating and Practicing Homosexual", Integrity Forum (for Gay Episcopalians), vol. 4 no. 4, April-May, 1978, available online athttp://www.integrityusa.org/voice/1978/AprilMay1978.htm. Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, 1996), pp. 76-78.
112. Larry Agriesti, as quoted in Donald Eckert, "Bigots on Parade: Gay Parade 1977", available online at http://thecastro.net/parade/parade/paradebigots.html; Sukie de la Croix, "A Very Personal Gay and Lesbian History", online athttp://www.outlineschicago.com/archives/current/outlines/archives/112697/history.html; "Gays Parade: 100,00 in S.F.", Deseret News, June 27, 1977, p. A-7. Sievert, "The Killing of Mr. Greenjeans", p. 42.
113. Various websites have accounts, photos, and downloadable film footage of this humorous and historical moment, including: http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_327.html
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For Bringhurst's announcement about the State Fair, see Ben Williams, "The Anita Bryant Fairgrounds Affair", online at http://slmetro.com/2005/6/williams_ben.shtml. On effects of Bryant on homosexuals, see editorial "Anita's Squeeze Play", Mother Jones, August 1977, p. 56. On the Memory Grove vigil and on almost being attacked, Bob Waldrop email to Connell O'Donovan, June 29, 2005.
On Mormon lauding of Bryant, see "Relief Society Leader Hails Anita Bryant's Homosexual Stand," Salt Lake Tribune, June 11, 1977; "LDS Leader Hails Anti-Gay Stand," Salt Lake Tribune, November 5, 1977; and "Relief Society commends Anita", Deseret News, June 11, 1977, B1. "Unnatural, without excuse," Church News supplement of the Deseret News July 9, 1977; see note 117 about Petersen as author.
114. "House opposes marriage of gays", Deseret News, June 29, 1977, p. A-5; Michael Novak, "A 'Gay' moral claim?", Deseret News, June 22,1977 p. A-5.
115.Elliott Landau, "Opinions vary on the explosive topic of homosexuality", Deseret News, June 29, 1977, p. C10.
115B. Affirmation/G.M.U. Newsletter, December 11, 1977 [here as a PDF]
116."Unnatural, without excuse", July 9, 1977, "The strong delusions", January 14, 1978, "On the safe side," February 4,1978, "Calling the kettle clean," March 18, 1978, "Is it a menace?," and "Sin is no excuse", July 29, 1979, all in the "Church News" section of the Deseret News.
117. Rev. Robert Waldrop, "An Open Response to a Nameless General Authority Who Wants to Call Some Kettles Clean", Salt Lake Open Door, April 1978, p. 20; note that this was written six years before it was disclosed in the Church News on January 15, 1984 that Petersen "had written the editorials since the beginning of the weekly publication in 1931".
118. Gunn McKay, as quoted in The Open Door (Ray Hencke, editor), September 1977, vol. 1, no. 9. Ellett's opinion is found in Salt Lake City v. James D. Piepenburg, Supreme Court of Utah, 571 P.2d 1299 (1977). This opinion is found online athttp://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/obscenity.htm and http://www.outlineschicago.com/archives/current/outlines/archives/111997/history.html
120. Willy Marshal (former records clerk at the Salt Lake City Police Department) email to Connell O'Donovan, August 12, 2004; Salt Lake Tribune, January 12, 1978, p. 14A, and New York Times, January 13, 1978, Sec. 4, p.13.
121. "Anti-Gay Leader,” Sunstone Magazine, May-June 1978, p. 7, citing Christianity Today; Jay Bell email to Connell O'Donovan, Arpil 18, 2000 and http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_ID=1403
122. Why Mormon Women Oppose the ERA (Salt Lake City: Relief Society, 1979) n. p. and The Church and the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: A Moral Issue, (The Ensign Magazine 1980), 9 and 22. "Women's Rights", Sunstone, Issue 16, July 1979.
125. "Standards of Morality and Fidelity," First Presidency Letter to All Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 14, 1991. Emphasis is mine.
126. Spencer W. Kimball, "New Horizons for Homosexuals," (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1971).
129. Duane E. Jeffrey interview with Victor L. Brown, Jr., December 21, 1977, p. 2, copy of notes in my possession.
131B. Ray Henke (editor), "Gays Unite Against Harassment", The Open Door, vol 2. no. 10 (October 1978) p. 8.
131C. Mark Thompson, "Singing the Gay and Lesbian", The Advocate, December 27, 1979, pp. 24-27. Pearson, Goodbye, pp. 147 and 156. See also the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus memorial for those who have died from AIDS, including Gerald Pearson.
131D. Victor L. Brown Jr., DSW, "Truth, Sin, Guilt, Punishment, and Redemption", AMCAP Journal, Vol. 1, iss. 1, Oct 1975, p. 44.
132. "The Unquiet Life and Death of Kristi Independence Kelly" at http://www.transhistory.org/history/TH_Kristi_Kelly.html. Kay Brown emails to Connell O'Donovan, July 5 and 6, 2005. For Kimball's anti-transsexual speeches, see them quoted in Edward L. Kimball, The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pp. 278 and 634-5. Besides the murder of Frederick Jones in October 1864, recorded above, Mormon Eagle Scout Lance Wood tortured Gay Mormon Gordon Ray Church to death on November 23, 1988 in southern Utah (receiving a life sentence) and Mormon Russell A. Henderson assisted in the torture and murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming on October 6, 1998. Henderson was later excommunicated for Shepard's murder. I have been unable to find out if the LDS Church disciplined Lance Wood in any way for his part in the murder of Gordon Church. On the Hawker gay-bashing, see Miriam Rand, "Cache gay-bashing incident a decade ago similar to Laramie case", The Herald Journal (Logan, Utah), October 15, 1998, as quoted at http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9810&L=lmw-l&T=0&P=43949
Mormon Russell A. Hendrson in court for the murder
of Gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie [click to enlarge]
134. Ernest L. Wilkinson (ed.), Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years (BYU Press 1976) vo. 3, pp. 269-70; for LAPD treatment of Gays, see John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (University of Chicago Press, 1983) and Long Road to Freedom: the Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, Mark Thompson ed. (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994). The following is drawn from Long Road to Freedom:
In Los Angeles, Gays were harasssed by police under city code "647A", lewd conduct. The LA Police Commision's "Rule 9" also forbade drag performances on stage, which was overturned in January 1969 under growing public pressure to treat Gays better. During the 1950s especially, the LA newspapers published the names of all gay bar patrons that the police had arrested. (p. 17) Lesbians were particularly susceptible to police harassment. One Lesbian woman in the 1950s was raped by a cop and then arrested by him. (p. 18)
In the early months of 1967, the LAPD led a crack down on the Black Cat bar. Ten more Gays were arrested for "lew conduct" (simply for being in a Gay bar) in Silver Lake in August. Gays organized large protests in the wake of these arrests. Things grew more sinister when in February 1968, a 60 year old man from Pasadena named Jack McQuoid killed himself after being entrapped for "lewd conduct" by members of the LAPD. (pp. 3,4, and 12)
The very first issue of the Advocate (September 1967) asked, "Will the day come when law officers will not be allowed to vent their hatred of homosexuals...? That day will come. We do not ask for our rights on bended knee. We demand them, standing tall, as dignified human beings. We will not go away." Follwoing issues included cautionary articles on how to deal with entrapment, bar raids, and being arrested. (pp. 1 and 3) The January 1969 issue reported that police had quotas to fill at gay bars and parks. (p. 18)
Troy Perry founded the Metropolitan Community Church in October 1968 in Los Angeles "after witnessing police repression". (p. 19) The situation turned lethal when Howard Efland, a small, timid male nurse was arrested on March 9, 1969 by LA vice officers Lemuel Chauncey and Richard Halligan. Chauncey claimed that Efland groped him so the two arrested him, drug him out into the street, and in front of several witnesses the two police officers beat the unarmed, unresistant Gay man to death. The LAPD at first informed his parents that their son had merely died of a heart attack. The nominal jury ruled Elfland's death an "excusable homicide" and the story was withheld from the straight press. However the Advocate responded by calling the LAPD "psychotics" and Rev. Troy Perry led 120 marchers in a rally at the site of Efland's murder to commemorate his fatal beating. In the 1970s, Gay relations with the LAPD drastically improved.
135. David C. Martin to 7th East Press, July 21, 1982, copy in my possession.
140. Robert I. McQueen, "Outside the Temple Gates - The Gay Mormon", The Advocate, 13 Aug. 1975; and Vanguard, student newspaper at Portland State University, October 28, 1975.
141. "Annual Report/Summary of Cases," BYU, 1 September 1967 to 31 August 1968, copy in my possession.
145. Earl Donald Attridge, We'll Find A Place, 1997, online at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/5252/, Chap. 8.
146. K.A. Lauritzen to E.L. Wilkinson, June 18, 1969, copy in my possession.
147. Donal Attridge (writing anonymously), "Mormon and Gay...One man's tale of bloody knuckles", Daily Utah Chronicle, Jan. 31, 1978, p. 1. Those who responded on February 2 were Charles F. Hunt, "Wisdom of the ages"; Pink Triangle (Anon.), "Chrony does service"; Larry Dean Hardison, "Old sinful nature"; Dominick Carson, "Timely article"; on February 3, Douglass R. Hunger, "Lack of validity"; James Allen, "Purely fictional"; on February 6, Rev. E. John Langlitz, "our walls of paranoia"; Frank Eddings, "Hard up for news"; Claude Warner, "Being a member"; on February 7, Wall Earl, "A Chrony chuckle"; Scott H. Naegle, "Conform with rules"; on February 8, name withheld, "I can sleep well"; Michael C. Cress, "$30 burial plot". For the response from the one who had been blacklisted at BYU, see "The misery and suffering of homosexuals at B.Y.U.", Daily Utah Chronicle, February 7, 1978.
151. David C. Martin to 7th East Press, July 21, 1982, copy in my possession.
152. Dean Huffaker, "Homosexuality at BYU" p. 2, 7th East Press, April 12, 1982, pp. 1 and 12; BYU's Monday Magazine, March 24, 1975.
153. Huffaker, "Homosexuality at BYU" p. 2, pp. 1 and 12; Jerold and Sandra Tanner to the New York Times, Feb. 1975; Ben Williams interview with Connell O'Donovan, August 15, 1991, notes in my possession; regarding Security surveillance of Gays, see "Gays Protest Power - BYU Security Personnel Can Operate Off Campus", Salt Lake Tribune, October 23, 1979, p. D2; regarding the T-shirts, see Lee C. email to Connell O'Donovan, July 13, 2004. I personally recall being on BYU campus in the summers of 1976 and 1977 for the World Conference on [Genealogical] Records and noticing that the men's restrooms in the Wilkinson Center were highly used for sexual activity. Large holes were cut through stall walls and extremely graphic graffiti covered them. I was a naive farm boy in my mid-teens and this was my first experience with such a blatant "public sex environment", all the more disturbing to me at the time because of it's location at the heart of "the Lord's university". I noticed many years later, after the rennovation of the Wilkinson Center, that all the flimsy stalls had been replaced with thick brick walls, floor to ceiling.
154. Interview with Sgt. Kal O. Farr, February 3, 1978, copy of notes in my possession; Provo Daily Herald, March 22,1976.
155. Ben Williams interview with Connell O'Donovan, August 15, 1991. Carlyle D. Marsden obituaries, Ogden Standard Examiner, March 10, 1976, pp. 11A and 10B.
156. Huffaker, "Homosexuality at BYU", pt. 2, p. 12; Larry M***** email to Connell O'Donovan, October 5, 1995, copy in my possession.
159. Ibid.; Victor L. Brown Jr. to Robert K. Thomas, November 14, 1978, p. 1, Dallin H. Oaks to J. Richard Clarke, March 7, 1979, and Victor L. Brown Jr. to Robert K. Thomas, September 11, 1979, copies of all in my possession.
160A. Allen E. Bergin, "Bringing the Resoration into the Academic World", BYU Studies 19 (1979), pp. 463-4. Bergin,"Psychotherapy and Religious Values", Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 48, no. 1 [1980], pp. 95–105. Alan P. Bell and Martin S. Weinberg,Homosexualities: a Study of Diversity Among Men and Women ( New York: Simon & Schuster) 1978, p. 196. For LDS response to Bergin's paper, see Mary Lynn Bahr, "Against the Current", BYU Magazine, Summer 1999, vol. 53, no. 2, available online athttp://magazine.byu.edu/g/?act=view&a=224 <accessed May 10, 2010>.
163. Gary James Bergera and Ronald Priddis, Brigham Young University: A House of Faith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1985), pp. 83- 84.
164. Gary Bergera interview with Gerald Dye, February 1, 1978, pp. 1 and 2, copy of notes in my possession.
166. Max Ford McBride, Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy, PhD Dissertaion, BYU, August 1976; John Cameron email to Connell O'Donovan, June 30, 1999.
167. Transcript of Legacies at http://www.lds-mormon.com/legacies.shtml.
167A. Carol Lynn Pearson, Goodbye, I Love You (New York: Random House, 1986), pp. 98-99. For Sam's "gay-bashing" see p. 175.
168. "Gay Activists To Picket LDS Temple", Salt Lake Tribune, October 2, 1981, p. D6 and "LDS Stand Chided - Group Marches for Gay Rights", Salt Lake Tribune, October 5, 1981, p. B6.
169. The Open Door, August 1978, p. 17, Daily Utah Chronicle, July 20, 1978, p. 1, and Sunstone Review, Sept. 1982, p. 8. As of 2003, the KQED archives in San Francisco has the audio tape of the 1978 documentary, but the archivist is unable to locate the video images.
170. For the law suit against D. Eugene Thorne and the Provo Canyon School, see http://familyrightsassociation.com/bin/title42sec1983/milonas_v_williams.htm and http://www.beyondbusiness.net/provotruth.htm. Merrill J. Bateman to Connell O'Donovan (email sent via Brent Harker, BYU Director of Public Communications), April 9, 1997, copy in my possession. Bateman incorrectly assumed that I was a "professor" and addressed me as such in this email.
171. Connell O'Donovan interview with "Farris" (colleague of Howard Salisbury), regarding Salisbury's role in editing Prologue, August 15, 1991, notes in my possession; BYU Executive Committee Minutes, September 15, 1977, copy in my possession; Prologue: An Examination of Mormon Attitudes Towards Homosexuality, (n.c.: Prometheus Enterprises, 1978), reprinted by Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons.
174. Ibid.; Dean Huffaker, "Homosexuality at BYU", pt. 2, Seventh East Press, April 1982, p. 12; and BYU Executive Committee Minutes, September 15, 1977.
177. Anonymous, handwritten statement on frontispiece of one copy of Bergin's "Reply" in my possession.
179. For Packer turning down Kimball, see Lucile C. Tate, Boyd K. Packer: A Watchman on the Tower, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1995), p. 300. Dallin H. Oaks to Boyd K. Packer, February 14, 1978, copy in my possession; The Advocate, February 22, 1978.
181. Boyd K. Packer, "To the One", (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1978), March 5, 1978. Ironically, the Greek philosopher Plato took an opposite point of view, theorizing that selfishness causes homophobia, not homosexuality: "Thus whenever it is accepted that it is shameful to value same-sex lovers, this is due to malice in the legislature, selfishness in the rulers, and cowardice in the governed." Plato, Symposium 182-D, my translation). Larry M***** email to Connell O'Donovan, October 5, 1995, copy in my possession.
185."Gays at BYU", The Open Door, November 1978 (vol. 2, no. 11); classified section, The Open Door, December 1978 and January 1979; "Provoan bound over in sex case", The Daily Universe, March 28, 1979, p. 3; BYU Board of Directors' minutes, p. 2-3, copy in my possession; Minutes of the President's Weekly Meeting, p. 3, copy in my possession; "Other Minorities", Sunstone, Issue 15, May 1979; "'Mormon Militia' of Morality - Attorney Challenging Arrest by Y. Campus Police", Salt Lake Tribune, September 8, 1979; "Stanger and Child Protest Utah Law - Lunnen, Oaks Refute Critics of 'Y' Security Powers", Daily Herald, September 3, 1979; "Y aide clarifies harassment story" and "Court day set for Oct. 25 in felony trial", Daily Universe, September 28, 1979, p. 1; "Trial in BYU Gay Arrest Postponed", Ogden Standard Examiner, October 18, 1979, p. 11A; "Gays Protest Power - BYU Security Personnel Can Operate Off Campus", Salt Lake Tribune, October 23, 1979, p. D2; "Groups Protest Power of BYU Police", Sunstone, Issue 17-18, December 1979;"Y sexual abuse case, decision forthcoming", Daily Universe, April 1, 1980, p. 1; "Chipman found guilty of attempted abuse", Deseret News, April 8, 1980, p. 1; "Salt Lake will appeal conviction in Provo case", Deseret News, April 12, 1980, p. A7; "Provoan Sentenced On Morals Charge", Daily Universe, April 13, 1980, p. 27; "Former Y student's conviction upheld", Daily Universe, January 12, 1982, p. 3. Ballantyne and Whiting interview in "BYU-Witch Hunt", The Open Door, May 1979, p. 1.
186. Lee C. emails to Connell O'Donovan, May 27 and July 13, 2004. Virginia Lawyers Weekly, July 14, 2001; see http://www.valawyersweekly.com/barpassjul01.htm; "BYU-Witch Hunt", The Open Door, May 1979, p. 1. Chipman's case has a similar repeat 10 years later when two Gay BYU students met at the Richards PE building, began to fall in love, and one evening went for a drive up Provo Canyon. They pulled into a state park and began kissing and some heavy petting. A Utah State Trooper intervened, asked if they were BYU students, to which they lied, and he merely took down their driver's license numbers and left. Five days later, Daniel H----- was called into Burton Kelley's office at the Standards Office. The police officer had filed a report with Kelley that he had seen Daniel and his partner having anal sex, which was patently false. Daniel's ecclesiastical endorsement was withdrawn and he was forced to withdraw from school. Daniel's partner was nearly finished with his bachelor's degree so he was allowed to stay in only after a psychiatrist had treated him until he claimed that his sexual orientation was "normal and heterosexual", although he was lying just to get out of the difficult situation. They consulted a lawyer, who told them they had a really good case against the police and BYU, but decided to forego any legal action to save their families from the scandal of publicity. Daniel H------ to Connell O'Donovan, email, May 27, 1991, copy in my possession.
187. Mark S------- interview with Connell O'Donovan August 11, 2004 and Mark S------- email to Connnell O'Donovan, August 22, 2004, copy in my possession.
188. Jeffrey Holland to William Rolfe Kerr, October 7, 1980, copy in my possession.
189. Phone interview with David O**** on April 17, 1991; his Brigham Young University transcripts, copy in my possession.
190. "Evergreen International's Principles and Programs", (n.c.: n.p., 1993). For Russ Gorringe's story see "Ex-Gay. Evergreen's Promise, One Man's Struggle". He is also the subject of a film documentary called Marriages, Hopes, and Realities.
191. For one example of Byrd 's viewpoint, see Byrd, Cox, and Robinson's "Homosexuality: The Innate-Immutability Argument Finds No Basis in Science". Packard, Packard, and Schow then responded to Byrd et al. with "There is No Evicence Homosexuals Can Change, Only Evidence of Deception". Mormon clinical social worker with LDS Family Services, G. Allen Gundry (a dear friend of mine) also more cautiously disagrees with Byrd's claims in his 2003 pro-marriage "Counseling with Homosexual Latter-day Saints". For official church view, seeUnderstanding and Helping Those Who Have Homosexual Problems: Suggestions for Ecclesiastical Leaders, (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1992).
192. "Apostle Packer Says 'So-Called' Scholars, Gays, Feminists Are Leading LDS Astray," Salt Lake Tribune, July 24, 1993, p. B1.
194. Hugh B. Brown and First Presdiency statements of 1963 and 1969, as quoted in Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illionis Press, 1998), pp.180-1. First Presidency statement, February 13, 1994, copy in my possession. See Richley H. Crapo's 1997 "Chronology Of Mormon / LDS Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics" and 1999 "LDS Doctrinal Rhetoric and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage".
195. See Sam Clayton, "Winning and Losing: One Kid's Best Shot at BYU" at http://www.affirmation.org/learning/winning_or_losing.shtml
Below are scanned images of the 16 articles by or about Robert I. McQueen and Mormonism
which appeared in The Advocate from 1974 until his death in 1989 (scanned at 200 dpi for clarity) |
| "Mormon President Raps Homosexuals", November 6, 1974, p. 15 |
| "Mormons Show Fear", June 18, 1975, p. 15 |
| "Outside the Temple Gates - The Gay Mormon", August 13, 1975, p. 14 |
| "BYU Inquisition", August 13, 1975, pp. 14-15 |
| "Dogma According to Kimball", August 13, 1975, pp. 14 and 16 |
| "Gay Mormons Talking Back" (5 letters from Gay Mormons in response to August issue), October 22, 1975, p. 23 |
| "Robert McQueen Appointed as New Advocate Editor", December 3, 1975, p. 9 |
| "Gay Mormons Organize", November 2, 1977, pp. 30-1 |
| "The Heterosexual Solution: A Dilemma for Gay Mormons", Robert I. McQueen, ed. of Cloy Jenkins' "Payne Papers" (aka Prologue), February 22, 1978, pp. 10-15 |
| "Opinions: A Matter of Choice" (musings on editing the "Payne Papers"), February 22, 1978, p. 22 |
| "Mormons Excommunicate Editor of Advocate", August 9, 1979, pp. 10-11 |
| "Mormon Campus Cops Get Statewide Bust Power", December, 27 1979 |
| "Isn't There a Mormon Tabernacle Queer?", May 15, 1980, p. 12 |
| "Short Takes" (on David Chipman case), June 26, 1980, p. 11 |
| "What Hath Gay Wrought? The Progress and the Promise", June 26, 1980, p. 19 |
| "Robert McQueen Dies", November 7, 1989, p. 13 |
"Art Decoration: Oscar Wilde Enlightens a Large Audience on the Subject," Salt Lake Tribune, April 11, 1882.
Alfred Lambourne, A Play-House (Salt Lake City: n.p., n.d.) p. 28.
Tribune 15 Feb. 1885, quoted in Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy, p. 133.
April 6, 1895, The Deseret News, No Bail For Oscar; Wilde Listens To Damaging Testimony Against Him,
George Q. Cannon, First Counselor in the First Presidency, spoke in October General Conference 1897:
"In England a short time ago a man [Oscar Wilde] who had posed in society as a man of culture and of taste, and who lectured upon esthetics, was found to be guilty of a most abominable crime - a crime for which under the old law the penalty was death; a crime which was practiced by the nations of old, and caused God to command their destruction and extirpation. This crime was proved against this man, and some of his associates were what are called noblemen. He was sent to prison. His term of imprisonment having expired, he comes from prison, and is now engaged, it is so published, in writing a book, and, we suppose is received into society, though guilty of this nameless crime. And is this common; If we may believe that which is told to us, without going into researches ourselves, it and other kindred wickedness, is far too common. The same sin that caused the utter destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah! This and other abominable crimes are being practiced. How will these be stopped? Only by the destruction of those who practice them. Why, if a little nest of them were left that were guilty of these things, they would soon corrupt others, as some are being corrupted among us. In coming to these mountains we hoped to find a place where we could live secluded from the abominations of Babylon. But here in this secluded place wickedness intrudes itself, and is practiced in this land which we have dedicated to the Lord as a land of Zion! How can this be stopped? Not while those who have knowledge of these filthy crimes exist. The only way, according to all that I can understand as the word of God, is for the Lord to wipe them out, that there will be none left to perpetuate the knowledge of these dreadful practices among the children of men. And God will do it, as sure as He has spoken by the mouths of His prophets. He will destroy the wicked, and those who will be left will be like the Nephites after the wicked were all killed off; they were righteous men and women who lived for over two hundred years according to the law of heaven." [emphasis mine]
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Book Chapters
| “’The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature’: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840- 1980." In Multiply and Replenish, Essays on Mormon Sex and Family, Brent Corcoran (ed.), (Signature Books: Salt Lake City, 1994) - revised and expanded version online |
| “Ecce Homo: Ruminations on a Theology of My Queer Body." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
| “My Journey into Faerie and What I Found There." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
| “Reclaiming Sodom." In Reclaiming Sodom, Dr. Jonathan Goldberg (ed.), (Routledge Press: London, 1994) |
Non-refereed Articles
| “The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis: ‘An example for his more whiter brethren to follow’”,John Whitmer Historical Association Journal (2006) no. 26, pp. 47-99 |
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