The Supreme Court of California announced Friday that California judges will no longer be permitted to participate in nonprofit youth groups like the Boy Scouts of America due to the groups position on gay rights issues.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Boy Scouts participation off limits to judges, says California Supreme Court
Mormon Leaders Call for Laws That Protect Religious Freedom
SALT LAKE CITY —
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called Tuesday for legislation across the United States that protects vital religious freedoms.
At the same time, the Church said it would support legislation where it is being sought to provide protections in housing, employment and some other areas where LGBT people do not have protections, while ensuring that religious freedom was not compromised.
Read the entire press release at: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-news-conference-on-religious-freedom-and-nondiscrimination
Supreme Court to hear gay marriage cases in April
Associated PressSetting the stage for a potentially historic ruling, the Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America under the Constitution.
The justices will take up gay-rights cases that ask them to overturn bans in four states and declare for the entire nation that people can marry the partners of their choice, regardless of gender. The cases will be argued in April, and a decision is expected by late June.
Proponents of same-sex marriage said they expect the court to settle the matter once and for all with a decision that invalidates state provisions that define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Read the entire article at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/16/supreme-court-to-hear-gay-marriage-cases-in-april/
Read the entire article at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/16/supreme-court-to-hear-gay-marriage-cases-in-april/
Thursday, January 8, 2015
MEDIA RESPONSE — 7 JANUARY 2015 Church Responds to Questions Regarding Upcoming TLC Program
SALT LAKE CITY —
Official information regarding the Church’s position and teachings on same-sex attraction can be found here:
A new program on the TLC cable channel to air later this month, titled "My Husband's Not Gay," has generated significant news media coverage this week. Several journalists have asked the Church questions about the program because it features three Mormon couples. While the Church has no connection to the program and rarely comments on commercial productions, Church spokesman Eric Hawkins gave the following statement to the media regarding the issues being discussed:
“The decision for a woman and man to marry is deeply personal. While the Church does not promote marriage as a treatment method for same-sex attraction, couples who are trying to be lovingly supportive of each other while being true to their religious convictions deserve our support and respect.”
Official information regarding the Church’s position and teachings on same-sex attraction can be found here:
TLC show about Mormons with same-sex attraction creates media uproar
Summary
"I think if you're on a show called 'My Husband's Not Gay,' then your husband's gay. I also think there is a reverse bullying in the gay community where you can't (live) a certain way — and I'm sure this is controversial — I think if a guy is attracted to guys and he wants to try to live a straight lifestyle, that's as much his prerogative as somebody that wants to live a gay lifestyle.”
Former "Roseanne" star Sara Gilbert
SALT LAKE CITY — "In Salt Lake City, Utah, there are a group of Mormons who live their lives a little bit differently."
The cable channel TLC clearly hoped that tagline would draw attention to its one-hour special to air Sunday night called "My Husband's Not Gay."
Mission accomplished. Gay groups are attacking the show, and a change.org petition asking TLC to cancel the broadcast had more than 92,000 supporters as of the lunch hour Wednesday.
"This is the kind of thing TLC loves," "Entertainment Tonight" co-host Kevin Frazier said on the CBS talk show "The Talk."
The reality-based show portrays the lives of four men who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and who are attracted to men. Three are married to women and the fourth is dating women.
All seven are members of the North Star International community, an independent group of Latter-day Saints who experience same-sex attraction and desire to live in harmony with the church's teachings, doctrines and values, or who are family or friends of those who do.
LDS doctrine teaches that sexual relations are reserved for a marriage relationship between a man and a woman. The LDS Church, which had no involvement in the broadcast nor in the selection of the four men portrayed, released the following statement on Wednesday afternoon:
“The decision for a woman and man to marry is deeply personal. While the Church does not promote marriage as a treatment method for same-sex attraction, couples who are trying to be lovingly supportive of each other while being true to their religious convictions deserve our support and respect.”
In the show's trailer, one of the men says, "There is no marriage that is perfect — ours isn't — but, with our faith in God, we believe we can overcome anything."
Another portrays the spectrum of same-sex attraction, saying, "I'm attracted to my wife, for sure, and I'm definitely attracted to men, too."
These Mormon women married men who like men — and they’re all OK with it
By Jane Ridley January 5, 2015 | 10:30pm
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Their wives stand by them 100 percent, claiming their marriages — all of which have produced kids and involve plenty of action in the bedroom — are much stronger because they acknowledge the issue, rather than sweep it under the carpet.m/2015/01/05/these-women-married-men-who-like-men-and-theyre-all-ok-with-it.
Read the entire article at: http://nypost.com/2015/01/05/these-women-married-men-who-like-men-and-theyre-all-ok-with-it/
Mormon couples Tanya and Jeff (inset) and Tera and Curtis (left) appear on TLC's new reality show “My Husband’s Not Gay.”Photo: Allyson Bos
Sitting in a French restaurant on one of their regular double dates, the two married couples enjoy an animated conversation covering the usual small talk about jobs, sports and the challenge of parenting.
The mood lightens when a cute male server approaches the table to take their order. But it’s the husbands — not the wives — who start to flirt with him, suggestively joking that he milk a goat by hand to make cheese for their salads.
“Well, he’s a very good-looking guy,” gushes Jeff Bennion, 44, as he and his buddy, Pret Dahlgren, 32, eye the hunky specimen returning to the kitchen.
Far from being shocked or offended, Jeff’s other half, Tanya, 42, and Pret’s spouse, Megan, 32, roll their eyes in amusement.
“Are we going home together or what?” Tanya jokes, half-expecting Jeff to ask for the waiter’s number when the men check him out yet again after their meals arrive.
Mischievous banter like this, as revealed in the upcoming TLC documentary “My Husband’s Not Gay,” is common in the lives of the Bennion and Dahlgren families, two of three Mormon households who showcase their unconventional marriages for the one-off reality show airing Sunday.
The husbands, all of whom spoke openly with their wives to The Post, readily admit that they are sexually attracted to other men, yet deny ever acting on those impulses. It’s an aspect of their personalities they term “same sex attraction,” or SSA, rather than gay or bisexual.
Read the entire article at: http://nypost.com/2015/01/05/these-women-married-men-who-like-men-and-theyre-all-ok-with-it/
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