Johnny Townsend: 'LDS leaders have finally come out in support of secular same-sex marriage equality. That’s a good thing. But it’s going to take far more than that to stop the 16,000,000-car train full of hatred they already set in motion.'
Elijah Newcomb of Colorado Springs lays flowers near a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 where a shooting occurred late Saturday night.“The shooter is Mormon,” I texted my husband the moment I learned the man who’d killed five and injured eighteen at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ barMy husband texted a single word back two minutes later.
The new policy of “compassion” is such a no-brainer that it was difficult to feel overly excited. Basic human decency is a pretty low bar for a prophet of God. When I told my LDS cousin I was researching the fire, she wrinkled her nose in disgust and said, “You’re writing about people who died in aIn recent months, with right-wing religious and political leaders working hard to deny gender-affirming care, trans advocates have pointed out that this oppression will increase suicide rates.
hands are clean, we tell ourselves. We publicly deny responsibility, but in our hearts, we fully understand we’re responsible for “cleansing the world” in preparation for the Second Coming and we’reA basic law of physics is that an object in motion will stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force. A train barreling toward a crossing can’t stop in two seconds just because someone stepped onto the tracks.
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