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• In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.

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  Appreciation, Children, Understanding

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• If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.

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  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

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  Reality, Utah, Church

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• People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.

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  Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

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• I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

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  Gay, Thinking, People

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• The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

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  Tragedy, Benefits

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• I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

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  Believe, Don't Believe

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• In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Luxury, Anxiety

  "Foreign correspondent Andrew Solomon on 'Far and Away,' Gadhafi's Libya". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 2016.

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• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

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  Moving, Suicidal, Self

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• Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

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  Children, Ice Cream, Eating

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• There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

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  Art, Sublime, Lines

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• There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.

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  Sex, Gay, Thinking

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• If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

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  Church, Polygamy, Feels

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• I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

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  Believe, People, Abortion

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• The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

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  Ideas, Decision, Church

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• I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

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  Hate, Love You, Ideas

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• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

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  Mother, Couple, Loss

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• I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

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  Song, Believe, Voice

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

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  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

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  Believe, Ornaments, Aesthetics

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

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  Growing Up, Gay, Self

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• We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

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  Kindness, Compassion, People

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

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  Brother, Gay, Sister In Law

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• I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

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  Suicide, Attitude, Gay

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• I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

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  Sadness, Two, Church

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