Homosexuality – My Coming Out

It was either here or FB. But learning from Johnh’s craziness post, I went with here. :wave:

Thats usually my role in life…do stuff so people can watch the outcome and then do the opposite :crazy:

Just teasing

Mackay…I think he is coming out that he is no longer against Gay marriage.

Personally I woldn’t mind if my wife came out as bi and wanted to marry a woman…as long as she was also polyamorous. 👿

I am all about diversity :thumbup:

Let people marry who they want! If we’re going to teach that marriage in required for the celestial kingdom but gay’s shouldn’t marry, aren’t we essentially damming a group of people?

I agree, I hope that the church gets there someday.

I couldn’t agree more. Gay marriage has been legal here in Canada for quite some time now, and our society hasn’t fallen apart. We need to stop trying to hold other people accountable to our value system.

Careful, its a slippery slope though. First I accepted gay marriage and now, after taking lots of time to study it out and ponder, I am no longer convinced that God looks on it a an abomination. That stance, I have found, is a little more difficult to come out of the closet about. Even in a family with an openly gay brother.

Sorry (feeling a bit stoopid…)

I’m in agreement on allowing gay marriage.

We endorse other marriages for time. Eg, a couple might marry civily and never go to the temple. Or when widowed women marry a second husband even though she remains sealed to the first. In that situation they’re married for time only.

Essentially those couple are being endorsed as in a relationship for companionship, friendship etc in this life but there’s no promise of the eternity.

I can see a way for gay marriage ‘for time’ working.

I think it would be more difficult to change doctrine to a temple sealing for time and eternity given our doctrine of exaltation and eternal increase (‘getting a planet’)

Personally I woldn’t mind if my wife came out as bi and wanted to marry a woman…as long as she was also polyamorous. 👿

I am all about diversity :thumbup:

Lol. Have you seen the friends episode where ross tries this. I think most of us husbands would have the same fate of being quickly sidelined.

Yeah…you are probably right….then I would be stuck as a spectator

Whenever I hear about gay marriage, I think about lawyers rubbing their hands with glee.

Just curious – what do you mean?

If gays think they won’t have the challenges straight people do in marriage they have another thing coming.

Fwiw, I don’t know of any homosexual person who thinks like that. Most of them who want to be able to “marry” (and some don’t care in the slightest, as long as they can have full civil union rights) just want the right to try to make it work in the exact same way heterosexual people can. Anyway, even if half or more don’t work out long-term, it’s not like that won’t be par for the heterosexual course.

It’s not homosexuals who will devalue marriage and destroy its sanctity. Heterosexuals have taken care of that just fine on their own. Frankly, that hypocrisy (complaining that others will do what “we” have done already) is one of the core reasons I personally can’t oppose gay marriage strongly – again, even though I favor universal civil unions with marriage being a religious ceremony. Ironically, that would mean other churches adopting the LDS perspective, in a way, since that would resemble, in form, the way we in the Church view civil marriage and temple sealings now – and I would love that just for the irony. :ugeek: