Gay Mormons challenge church

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:45:00 +0000

When a group of 300 Mormons in church clothes marched in Salt Lake City’s Pride Parade earlier this month, it was the latest indication that — even for gay Mormons — it gets better.

For years, gay and lesbian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have defected from the fold, entered into “mixed orientation” marriages, or committed themselves to lives of celibacy. Some started same-sex relationships and were expelled from the church. An untold number took their own lives.

The ultimate Mormon male

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:30:00 +0000

If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney is seen by many as hollow, robotic, as stiff as his hair-sprayed coiffure.

But to me, Mitt Romney isn’t stiff. He’s just a Mormon.

I know, because I grew up in Ogden, Utah, a city of about 83,000 people, 60 percent of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (I’m not one.) Though Romney was raised in suburban Detroit, he seems a product of Ogden’s Mormon milieu — a town lodged firmly in the 1950s, where homeowners leave their doors unlocked at night, teenagers cruise the boulevard, or “vard,” on weekends and packs of Mormon men comb the neighborhoods after windstorms to clear away fallen branches.

Salon.com > Naomi Zeveloff

Gay Mormons challenge church

The ultimate Mormon male