Same-sex marriage is legal in New York state. The stone may not be rolling forward, but it's at least creaking forward.
I watch footage of gay and lesbian people talking about how excited they are now to be able to marry in their home state, and I think: How can LDS leaders and other conservative Mormons not be moved by this? I get, cerebrally, all your arguments against homosexuality and gay marriage: I understand your world view. But I really don't get how you can not be touched by the joy of people talking about how they want to formalize their intimate relationships. "How is it that ye are so hard in your hearts?" (1 Nephi 7:8).
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Continuing prayers for the Saudi women drivers. Prayers of thanks for the expressions of support they've received from world leaders, Hillary Clinton and the EU's Catherine Ashton among others.
Continuing prayers for those fighting oppressive regimes in Yemen, Syria, Libya. I pray that despite being conscious that some of the people that prayer covers may not represent great alternatives. But I have faith, or at least hope, in change.
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About Me
- John-Charles Duffy
- I'm a gay Mormon intellectual—excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2007—who remains committed to the Latter Day Saint tradition as my “first language” for spirituality. I am also the creator of the websites LDSEndowment.org and LiberalMormon.net. At this blog, I speak in a very personal voice. I blog in my professional persona, as a teacher of religious studies, at ProjectilePluralism.wordpress.com.
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