{"id":3046,"date":"2014-02-10T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/affirmation.org\/?page_id=3046"},"modified":"2021-10-03T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:38:28","slug":"bishop-rees-reviews-in-quiet-desperation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/es\/recursos-2\/libros-peliculas-juegos-television\/libros-articulos-2\/obispo-rees-revisa-en-tranquila-desesperacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Rees rese\u00f1a &quot;In Quiet Desperation&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13517\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/robert_rees_120b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13517\" src=\"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/robert_rees_120b.jpg\" alt=\"Robert A. Rees\" width=\"120\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/robert_rees_120b.jpg 120w, https:\/\/affirmation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/robert_rees_120b-44x55.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert A. Rees<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>He Takes Issue with LDS Family Services, AMCAP<\/h3>\n<p>by Matt Christensen<br \/>\nDecember 2005<\/p>\n<p>Robert A. Rees, a former bishop who often counseled with gay Mormons, has just published\u00a0a review\u00a0of the book\u00a0<em>In Quiet Desperation<\/em>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Quiet Desperation\u00a0<\/em>is a two-part book written by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield. Fred and Marilyn are the parents of\u00a0Stuart Matis, a young gay LDS who committed\u00a0suicide\u00a0in 2000. Ty Mansfield is a gay Mormon from Virginia who has accepted his sexual orientation and decided to remain celibate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The responsibility for the negative attitudes toward and treatment of homosexuals is shared by all of us\u2014General Authorities, local and regional ecclesiastical leaders, family and friends, and lay members alike,&#8221; writes Bishop Rees. &#8220;It is also shared by many in the LDS therapeutic community which, to some degree, has not served Mormon homosexuals well by doggedly persisting in emphasizing\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/?page_id=1178\">reparative or change therapy<\/a><\/strong>, by encouraging homosexuals to marry, by marginalizing therapists who have taken a broader view of homosexuality, by simplifying the issue in not recognizing the range of sexual attraction, and by attempting to control the dialogue about treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many homosexuals report finding standard treatment by LDS Family Services therapists not only unhelpful, but counterproductive, and in some in stances even destructive,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;The Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP) has seemed particularly resistant to any challenge to the standard position. There are, of course, examples of courageous therapists who have been willing to consider different points of view and employ alternate therapeutic treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Rees knew Stuart Matis and counseled with him before Stuart&#8217;s suicide. Rees has written about his experiences in &#8220;Requiem for a Gay Mormon: In Memory of Henry Stuart Matis&#8221; and in &#8220;&#8216;In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See&#8217;: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of the New Millennium&#8221; (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.utah.edu\/cgi-bin\/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=\/dialogue&amp;CISOPTR=9917\" target=\"_OTHER\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Dialogue<\/em>\u00a033:3 [Fall 2000]<\/a><\/strong>: 137-151).<\/p>\n<p>To see Bishop Rees&#8217;s full review, go to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071221160846\/http:\/\/www.dialoguejournal.com\/excerpts\/38-4a.pdf\" target=\"_OTHER\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.dialoguejournal.com\/excerpts\/38-4a.pdf<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PDF document).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discrepa con los Servicios Familiares SUD, AMCAP por Matt Christensen, diciembre de 2005. Robert A. Rees, exobispo que sol\u00eda asesorar a mormones homosexuales, acaba de publicar una rese\u00f1a del libro \u00abEn Silenciosa Desesperaci\u00f3n por el Di\u00e1logo: Un Diario del Pensamiento Morm\u00f3n\u00bb. \u00abEn Silenciosa Desesperaci\u00f3n\u00bb es un libro de dos partes escrito por Fred y Marilyn Matis y Ty Mansfield. 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