Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

[SandraJane]

  

Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

Post by Joanna Brooks| September 30, 2011, 12:53PM

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/5204/suicide_leads_to_calls_for_improved_treatment_of_lgbt_mormons__/




Bryan Egnew grew up in an observant LDS family in Arizona, the fourth of ten children. After graduating high school, he attended Brigham Young University, served a proselytizing mission in France, and then married in an LDS temple. He became the father of five children. He served in his local LDS congregation. He did everything that was asked of him.

After a few weeks of therapy, Bryan convinced his parents and his therapist that he was stable enough to return home to North Carolina, so he could look after the family home. Back in North Carolina, on Saturday, September 10, Bryan bought a gun at Wal-Mart. He fed the family's animals, cleaned the house, handed the keys to a neighbor, sent a message to a family member that they needed to come to the house, and then went on the front lawn and shot himself.

[Felix]

I know this is an old article, but I want to call attention to this articulate, rational, and really funny argument:

The biggest problem is that society has begun to equate same-sex attraction with homosexual acts, as if the two are one and the same. This is seen quite clearly in the way the English language treats the word "gay," which can refer to either someone who engages in homosexual acts or one who is merely tempted to do so. This is why I use terms such as "homosexual" and "homosexuous" to distinguish between the two, just as "murderer" and "murderous" distinguish between action and mere thought. By elevating homosexual sex to a symptom of homosexuosity, the mindshare has already been won. Society has likewise used the term "marriage" to refer to homosexual unions, a definition that even ten years ago would have been laughable.

The word "homosexuous" makes me happy I spent my coffee time here.

[spacial]

his excommunication severed Bryan's relationship to his children not only in this life, but also in the hereafter.

So the LDS leadership considers itself to be god on earth?

Is this some sort of hevenly republican movement, where a group, dissatisfied with paying tithes without representation, have declaired themselves independant to the old, god and set up a god of the people?

OK I apologise if this seems flippant, but how can anyone claim to have authority over god?

What if god disagrees with them? Can he be impeached? Can naked photos of him be circulated?