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Your letter is beautiful, and brought me to tears. Thank you for your love, goodness, and many painful sacrifices. Church leaders need to hear from voices such as yours. That said, it is perfectly right for you to set boundaries to protect yourself. I’m glad you are doing so. I hope your letter will be well received. Either way, I pray you will find peace. I respectfully disagree with SD. It should be clear that these teachings lead to unnecessary, yet very real and immense pain and suffering. They are wrong, not Christ-like, and should be rooted out like the past prejudice against blacks was. Hmm…I think it’s clear the way either of us said it. The method I suggested uses language that is not emotionally charged, and possibly more likely to evoke agreement. Experience shows that emotionally charged words tend to lead to dismissal, blaming the person who has the emotions etcetera. Nonetheless, we are comfortable with disagreement. One must be so to be comfortable staying LDS after dissaffection.
Turinturambar, Your letter comes from the heart and touched me – I don’t think you need to change anything and I hope things work out for you. Certainly if your local leaders have the true spirit with them, they will be compassionate and understanding.
For what it is worth, there a quite a few people out there, especially in this forum who would like to see the church change toward the LGBT community. I for one hope to be some sort of catalyst in my own ward for getting people to see a broader view. I also expect to get in trouble from time to time about it, but that’s fine by me.
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