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Spencer W. Kimball, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, LDS Church, Mormon Church, Homosexuality, Homophobia, Gay Newspapers, LGBTQIA+ Newspapers, Research Materials |
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Show Isn't There a Mormon Tabernacle Queer? TIie Mormon Church has never Oeen noted for I ts k indly disposition toward homosexuallty. Still, It's useful to notice exactly how rabid olllclal churr:h · doctrine is. The fo110.,,1ng .,. • few quotes from Chairman Kimball: • " To those who that (ho"'e,Px_u •I· lty} Is Incurable, I reapond: '/IOW can you say th• door cannot be opentld until your knuckl., .,. bloody, ti/I your hHd I• brulatld, Ill/ your mulc/H . ,. sore?' It can 0. dona." • "All deviation• from normal, proper ••Y h•t•roHxuat retatlonahlpa are nor merely unnatural, 11111 /11 th• 1/ght- of God ... {homo•••u•NtyJ ts ho,ttta to "Sod'a purpou." • "/.fany (homosexual1J are l>e,/calty good ~ople who hr,• l>ecom• trapped In 1/n. They yleld to a kind. helpful approach. Those who do nor '7>usr lie dlsclpllned wh•n all oth11r treatments /all." (Can 't you Just near the whips cracking?) In /ust thrH pages of h/1 " Miracle . of Forgtven•ss." K/ml>ell uaes the fol· towing phrases to descrllle homosuuallty and homosexuals: "repugnant." " wretched wickedness," " d•gener• are," " abomln•ble," "dete,tabte, " " deviate," "perverted,'' " 1/n of the 6gH" and " emb,"u,tng." GH, does 1 that m•an he doesn't Ilka us? ""°"II |
