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Estaba emocionado porque se había abierto una puerta. Pero luego leo más y más opiniones sobre la reversión de la política. Tantos corazones dolidos. Debido a donde estaba hace tres años y medio, no puedo compartir ese dolor porque esta política solo me ha afectado una vez.
La guerra de sesenta años que la Iglesia Mormona ha emprendido contra la comunidad LGBT+ ha costado la vida a las personas. E incluso aquellos de nosotros que somos sobrevivientes hemos sufrido tremendamente.
Fue en estos momentos tranquilos de dolor y confusión que sentí otro triunfo: el de llegar a un acuerdo, no con quien pensé que debía ser, sino con quién me hizo el Señor.
Esperaba que las noticias aún no hubieran llegado a mi hijo, pero luego publicó un meme en línea que mostraba a Jesucristo y señaló que la Iglesia estaba ocultando a los niños de él.
Society is coming to the truth that gender and sexuality do not fit neatly into boxes, that they entail numerous gradations, that they may be fluid, and how individuals respond to their own gender and sexuality is really a matter of individual agency.
Regrettably, on social media, these friends and neighbors pointed their fingers and mocked a young gay valedictorian, just because he delivered a BYU-approved speech at his commencement. It was a surreal moment as the comment sections became a “great and spacious building,” as spoken of in Lehi’s vision in the Book of Mormon, full of detractors scoffing at LGBTQ members of the church pressing onward towards the tree of life.
If you are alone or feeling abandoned, believing that there is no longer room for you somewhere, ask the Lord to raise in your heart the hope of better days. He can take you out of the tomb by name and perform a miracle in your life.
I do not know if this is a real change. I just can not imagine God saying, “do not baptize your children,” and three years later, “well, it’s okay, yes, do it.” It does not seem logical to me.
Sometimes I think back to that time I was dating everyone in the state of Utah–how I was using Tinder to find someone who wasn’t weird–how I thought if I just spent enough time on that app I would eventually find someone who wasn’t weird. And the irony is that I just ended up with the weirdest person on Tinder. But he’s my kind of weird. He’s the kind of weird who thinks the Kirtland temple is a great first date location for a couple of gays.