Sexuality
Recommended
Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.
Intersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
Duane E. JefferyDialogue 12.3 (Fall 1979): 107–113
In the Fall 1979 issue, an LDS evolutionary biologist wrote a really important piece, ahead of its time in some ways, challenging the idea of binary gender in his article, “Intersexes in Humans: An Introductory Exploration.” Duane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Taylor G. PetreyDialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 111–137
Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands of times. The public discussion about my ideas was both critical and appreciative. In the wake of the article, my own research and thinking have also developed.
Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies
Blaire OstlerDialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 99–109
Reproductive gender essentialism claims exclude trans persons for their gender identity. However, these same arguments, when taken seriously, also exclude infertile and intersex women too. Such a strict definition of “man” or “woman” does not simply exclude trans folks but also any body not fulfilling its biological utility. After all, biological potential and utility is the basis of a biological sex assignment
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire OstlerDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 33–44
“Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type of same-sex relationships—it really pushes the boundaries of what queer scholarship had done. Drawing on contemporary polyamory to critique the limitations of heterosexual monogamy, and putting that into conversation with the LDS tradition of plural marriage, Ostler imagines a new type of polygamy, queer polygamy, that sheds the patriarchal baggage of the 19th century version and its continuation in fundamentalist Mormonism, as well as thinking beyond its presumed heterosexulity.
Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation
Gary James BergeraReview: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.
Terresa Wellborn“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensDialogue 49.1 (Spring 2016): 1–26
Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both his most radical theologizing and his hopes for Church comity itself.
This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response
Lowell BennionThree Philosophies of Sex, Plus One
Carlfred B. BroderickSacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Bruce G. RogersOn Sexuality
Marvin RyttingSex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints
Shirley PaxmanMormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads
Lester E. Bush Jr.Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison
Armand L. MaussMormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!
Wilford E. SmithMormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective
Harold T. ChristensenNeeded: An LDS Philosophy of Sex
Kenneth L. Cannon IIMormon Sexuality and American Culture
Klaus J. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.
Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Gary L. BunkerIntersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
Duane E. JefferyDialogue 12.3 (Fall 1979): 107–113
In the Fall 1979 issue, an LDS evolutionary biologist wrote a really important piece, ahead of its time in some ways, challenging the idea of binary gender in his article, “Intersexes in Humans: An Introductory Exploration.” Duane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.
Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines
Lester E. Bush Jr.Dialogue 12.3 (Fall 1979): 97–107
Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Lawrence FosterThree Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century
Louis J. KernSin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality
R. Jan StoutDialogue 20.2 (Summer 1987): 31–43
Stout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media. He talks about how he believed and presented publicly theories on the cause and cure of homoseuxaity, following Freudian psychology in 1970. “16 years later, “he states, “I can state that what I presented was wrong and simplistic. The evolving change in my views came by examining new research, gaining more clinical experience, and looking for alternative explanations to clarify some of the mystery surrounding the development of human sexuality and specifically homosexuality.” Stout’s overview provides a guide to the updated psychological research from the 1970s and 80s that overturned earlier consensus on the pathologization of homosexuality and on whether it can be cured. He tackles the ethical and moral issues with forced celibacy, but leaves the question as a mystery of paradox of how to proceed on the topic, warning against “extremes” on all sides.
Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
Robert A. Rees“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangSexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
Kathryn LindquistFinding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott
Carla S. WesternA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienDialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation
Gary M. WattsCan You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction
Marybeth RaynesNear-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)
Karin Anderson EnglandYouth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex
Dynette ReynoldsThe Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships
Gary M. WattsDialogue 31.3 (Fall 1998): 49–57
In Fall 1998 just a few years after The Family Proclamation, Gary Watts wrote, “The Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships.” He notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church. It draws a lot of personal experiences and conversation to assess the issues. And he proposes that affirming committed, monogamous same-sex relationships would not change doctrines about reserving sexual initimacy for marriage, but proposed that these relationhips would not be eligible for sealings.
Northing by Musket and Sextant
John Farrell LinesSex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence Foster“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology
Eric G. SwedinGay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews with James Kent, Former Executive Director of Affirmation, and with Aaron Cloward, Founder and Coordinator of Gay LDS Youth
Hugo N. OlaizDialogue 33.3 (Fall 2000): 123–136
Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for learning more about LDS LGBTQ organizing in this period.
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzSexual Morality Revisited
Wayne Schow“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989
Kristine HaglundEcclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition
Daryl WhiteThis article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…
Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti
Jennifer Huss BasquiatGetting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist
Marybeth RaynesIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions
Ron SchowDialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 133–145
In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out
Ben ChristensenDialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 121–133
In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield
Robert A. ReesA Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
Wayne SchowDialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 50–60
These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
Randolph G. MuhlesteinDialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 11–41
These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Kenneth L. Cannon IIReview: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation
William S. BradshawSex Talk Sunday
Deja EarleyToward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Taylor G. PetreyDialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141
From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed tens of thousands of times. To this day I still receive notes of appreciation for this article.
Same-Sex Attraction
Clifton Holt Jolley“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage
Wilfried DecooDialogue 46.3 (Fall 2013): 106–141
Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way for the Mormon Church to withdraw its opposition to same-sex marriage, at least as it concerns civil society, while the Catholic Church is unlikely to budge.”
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Taylor G. PetreyDialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 111–137
Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands of times. The public discussion about my ideas was both critical and appreciative. In the wake of the article, my own research and thinking have also developed.
Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies
Blaire OstlerDialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 99–109
Reproductive gender essentialism claims exclude trans persons for their gender identity. However, these same arguments, when taken seriously, also exclude infertile and intersex women too. Such a strict definition of “man” or “woman” does not simply exclude trans folks but also any body not fulfilling its biological utility. After all, biological potential and utility is the basis of a biological sex assignment
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire OstlerDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 33–44
“Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type of same-sex relationships—it really pushes the boundaries of what queer scholarship had done. Drawing on contemporary polyamory to critique the limitations of heterosexual monogamy, and putting that into conversation with the LDS tradition of plural marriage, Ostler imagines a new type of polygamy, queer polygamy, that sheds the patriarchal baggage of the 19th century version and its continuation in fundamentalist Mormonism, as well as thinking beyond its presumed heterosexulity.
Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation
Gary James BergeraReview: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.
Terresa Wellborn“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensDialogue 49.1 (Spring 2016): 1–26
Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both his most radical theologizing and his hopes for Church comity itself.
This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response
Lowell BennionThree Philosophies of Sex, Plus One
Carlfred B. BroderickSacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Bruce G. RogersOn Sexuality
Marvin RyttingSex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints
Shirley PaxmanMormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads
Lester E. Bush Jr.Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison
Armand L. MaussMormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!
Wilford E. SmithMormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective
Harold T. ChristensenNeeded: An LDS Philosophy of Sex
Kenneth L. Cannon IIMormon Sexuality and American Culture
Klaus J. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.
Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Gary L. BunkerIntersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
Duane E. JefferyDialogue 12.3 (Fall 1979): 107–113
In the Fall 1979 issue, an LDS evolutionary biologist wrote a really important piece, ahead of its time in some ways, challenging the idea of binary gender in his article, “Intersexes in Humans: An Introductory Exploration.” Duane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.
Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines
Lester E. Bush Jr.Dialogue 12.3 (Fall 1979): 97–107
Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Lawrence FosterThree Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century
Louis J. KernSin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality
R. Jan StoutDialogue 20.2 (Summer 1987): 31–43
Stout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media. He talks about how he believed and presented publicly theories on the cause and cure of homoseuxaity, following Freudian psychology in 1970. “16 years later, “he states, “I can state that what I presented was wrong and simplistic. The evolving change in my views came by examining new research, gaining more clinical experience, and looking for alternative explanations to clarify some of the mystery surrounding the development of human sexuality and specifically homosexuality.” Stout’s overview provides a guide to the updated psychological research from the 1970s and 80s that overturned earlier consensus on the pathologization of homosexuality and on whether it can be cured. He tackles the ethical and moral issues with forced celibacy, but leaves the question as a mystery of paradox of how to proceed on the topic, warning against “extremes” on all sides.
Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
Robert A. Rees“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangSexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
Kathryn LindquistFinding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott
Carla S. WesternA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienDialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation
Gary M. WattsCan You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction
Marybeth RaynesNear-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)
Karin Anderson EnglandYouth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex
Dynette ReynoldsThe Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships
Gary M. WattsDialogue 31.3 (Fall 1998): 49–57
In Fall 1998 just a few years after The Family Proclamation, Gary Watts wrote, “The Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships.” He notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church. It draws a lot of personal experiences and conversation to assess the issues. And he proposes that affirming committed, monogamous same-sex relationships would not change doctrines about reserving sexual initimacy for marriage, but proposed that these relationhips would not be eligible for sealings.
Northing by Musket and Sextant
John Farrell LinesSex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence Foster“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology
Eric G. SwedinGay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews with James Kent, Former Executive Director of Affirmation, and with Aaron Cloward, Founder and Coordinator of Gay LDS Youth
Hugo N. OlaizDialogue 33.3 (Fall 2000): 123–136
Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for learning more about LDS LGBTQ organizing in this period.
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzSexual Morality Revisited
Wayne Schow“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989
Kristine HaglundEcclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition
Daryl WhiteThis article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…
Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti
Jennifer Huss BasquiatGetting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist
Marybeth RaynesIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions
Ron SchowDialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 133–145
In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out
Ben ChristensenDialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 121–133
In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield
Robert A. ReesA Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
Wayne SchowDialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 50–60
These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
Randolph G. MuhlesteinDialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 11–41
These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Kenneth L. Cannon IIReview: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation
William S. BradshawSex Talk Sunday
Deja EarleyToward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Taylor G. PetreyDialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141
From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed tens of thousands of times. To this day I still receive notes of appreciation for this article.
Same-Sex Attraction
Clifton Holt Jolley“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage
Wilfried DecooDialogue 46.3 (Fall 2013): 106–141
Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way for the Mormon Church to withdraw its opposition to same-sex marriage, at least as it concerns civil society, while the Catholic Church is unlikely to budge.”