Gay mormon mission stories
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Posted by: beyondashadow ( )
Date: June 09, PM
Any stories out there about gay or lesbian missionaries?
Have any of you paused to consider how going on a mission is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Exposure if you are homosexual or lesbian?
The equivalent would be for a vertical elder or sister to be paired with an opposite-gender companion 24/7.
I never heard of any queer shenanigans during my mission (Argentina South ), but I am sure some of you have faith demoting stories to distribute. (My first senior companion later boinked his landlady and got sent dwelling the lucky bastard.)
Here is a BYU gay story (not about missionaries) from the early 's:
My Heritage Halls girlfriend's dorm father got caught in a BYU gay sting operation in a Y-Center restroom. The dude responded to foot tap signaling from the next toilet stall and was immediately "arrested" by BYU Security and hauled to the basement of the Administration building. His eternal companion wife was summoned to assist with his humiliation.
This was probably all a superb thing in the extended run. It likely hastened his transition from living a d
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Posted by: wantthetruth ( )
Date: December 02, PM
Gay Mormon Missionaries
Does anyone understand of any information that gives a possible percentage figure for misionaries that are either gay and serving missions(not out) or gay missionaries that "came out" after they returned? I'm trying to broaden my understanding about the churches stance on the whole gay issue and it's effects on the membership, missionaries in this case. I lean heavily toward this forum for information because it seems that if I seek the internet through a certain search engine, I get alot of Wiki stuff and other "types" of articles that appear to be written by the church. Some of that info even suggests that the BYU leaders was totally unaware of the early "aversion therapy" experiments that went on at the school. Not to mention alot of verbal back-pedaling by the church leadership on past postions regarding -cause,treatment(at one time they thought it was a mental illness.) Even changes in the advice given to people with same sex attraction. It gets frustrating to get consistancy from
Coming Out (A Young Returned Missionary Shares His Story)
Yesterday I sat down with one of my professors to talk about economic history. After briefly discussing the decline of the Netherlands in the mid 18th century, he paused and asked me what I wanted to accomplish with my life. I said that I didn&#;t know, and we discussed the possibilities of a graduate degree in economic history. I told him that I was interested in China because I served a Chinese speaking mission, and then he paused. &#;You&#;re obviously Mormon,&#; he said matter-of-factly. And then in an equally frank tone, he said, &#;and you&#;re gay.&#; I was shocked. How did he know? I fast thought through everyone I knew that also knew him and wondered who had told him. I asked him how he knew, and he said that he had guessed. I was pretty shocked, because I didn&#;t believe it was all that obvious.
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This site has been created to provide a forum for gay men, lesbians and their families and friends to share their stories. The common denominator is Mormonism with the hope that those who are journeying therein will feel less alone after reading these stories.
For many decades now the Mormon Church has provided a less than hospitable environment for its gay and lesbian members, leaving most of us to locate our own way out of the confusion, condemnation and guilt. It can be a pretty lonely road and sometimes just knowing that somebody else is going through the same things we are helps make the journey a little easier.
Rather than going to battle with the Mormon Church over its beliefs and practices this site focuses on the first-person narratives of those who are impacted by it all. Sometimes we get so caught up in the doctrine that we forget the human toll involved in a one-size-fits-all plan. Hopefully these stories will support put a more human face on the complex issues of religion and sexuality and generate a greater feeling of acceptance and understanding.
Some of the stories you read here may not always employ people's real names for obvious reasons. In some instances, a
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