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Meeting with LDS Family Services: Help Craft Our Presentation
Send us stories, both positive and negative, about your interactions with Church leaders or LDS Family Services

by Olin Thomas, Executive Director
May 2008

The Executive Committee invites Affirmation members and others to send us stories, both positive and negative, about their interactions with Church leaders (bishops, stake presidents, or higher) or LDS Family (Social) Services. We are especially interested in those interactions that happened in the last five to ten years.

For those who have been referred to counseling and/or Evergreen by Social Services, we want to know if the counselors & Evergreen were helpful or not, whether the counselors were ethical or not, if they achieved what they claimed they would achieve, and whether they created realistic expectations or rather made unrealistic promises such as stating that through prayer and obedience people can overcome their "same-sex attraction" and/or change their orientation.

If your story has been published already, refer us to it (even if it was published by Affirmation). We are interested in advice Church officials gave not only you, but your family as well. Our goal is to illustrate ineffective or hurtful counseling within the Church, and maybe even find some helpful examples.

Also, send us your ideas about what points to make at the meeting in August. Tell us what approach you see as being consistent with our mission. We want to understand the range of positions within our community. Please send your input by email to http://www.affirmation.org/contact/ex_com or by mail to our DC post office box:

P.O. Box 77504
Washington, DC 20013-8504