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It Gets Better Please share this video with everyone and anyone if you feel moved by it. It’s a powerful outreach message to LGBTQ Mormons from allies within the LDS Church. I got to see this for the first time yesterday at the “Circling the Wagons” conference in Wash DC. Okay, I might actually have to admit I am not completely a tough guy. It brought me to tears.
Saw this earlier this afternoon and had the same reaction, Brian. You can feel the heartache and the healing through the stories shared in this video.
I posted my response to the video elsewhere but I’ll add it here also:
Quote:I’ve wondered lately, if homosexuality is the new blindness. In other words, instead of asking who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind, maybe we should just patiently wait for the works of God to be manifest.
And maybe the real work of God is manifest in the softening of our own hearts as we view the pain and suffering of our fellow beings. Maybe the real work of God is manifest when we learn to love.
I saw it – and it proved I’m not a tough guy, either. Fwiw, I’m glad it proved that. Thanks Brian. I watched the video & talked about it with my son. I know this has been said before. I will say again, for me.
This topic is more of a test for the Church. Will we choose to show compassion or be negative & judgemental?
I hope I will pass my test.
Mike from Milton.
Mike, I couldn’t agree with you more. :thumbup: I was really inspired by the overarching call to love. We love you, first and foremost! We’ll figure out all the other details later. Let’s focus on being together as families and as followers of Christ. Did you also hear of the BYU Gay Mormon panel on campus and what a huge success it was: http://trevorantley.com/2012/04/05/byus-gay-mormon-panel-a-huge-success/ http://thestudentreview.org/2012/04/04/liveblogging-the-byu-panel-of-gay-students/ delete please Words can’t even describe how I feel about that video. My heart was touched. I have two friends that are gay and I have truly learned to love them as Christ would. A very important test for the church. So far, I think we passed. It is good, but why do we always have to have emotional music in the background of documentaries these days? It’s lazy. I love this video! I re-posted on my facebook wall. 
I am an advocate for equality and stopping discrimination. I love this one. I hope it comes out okay. I am grateful our church members are starting to understand same gender love. Because I did not grow up in the church, and grew up on the S.F. Peninsula I had no idea there was discrimination like I do today. I no longer live in the Bay Area, but only an hour or so away, but people’s views are different. When my husband and I got married at our ward, we were living together before we got married and were baptized a week after our wedding at the ward building, we invited all our friends, this included many gay couples we knew. We are both in recovery for multiple years – me (I am a girl) with 21 and he with 19 years, so we were friends with many different walks of life. But the people we met at church as we learned about the gospel and decided to be baptized, came and sat at the same tables with our other friends. One of my gay friends caught the bouquet.
I hope this youtube can be seen. It’s neat that this is happening…. and I loved this other video you posted. Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoVGgn5sT0 Dean Hansen (I’m a woman)
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