When 1 + 1 no longer equals 2.
Mickey (my husband) and I just finished watching the new documentary, “In the Shadow of the Temple.” We expected it to be difficult for me, but as it turned out it was Mickey who ended up with the tears in his eyes.
To hear others repeat almost word-for-word what he has heard me saying for almost three years now was tough for him. Most difficult was when he heard the one lady say that she had struggled too hard to heal from the wounds of the temple in her own life to go and wait outside for her daughter to be married in the temple. Mickey had not fully understood why I would not go out to be at Peter’s wedding in San Diego in August, although he fully supported my decision as mine alone to make.
The documentary is hard-hitting because it opens with the “absolute” doctrine of the Mormon Church…where if any shred of it is false, then by extension, the whole church is an enormous fraud. I taught that on my mission, and it truly sets the Mormons apart from other religions.
I guess that is why Christian fundamentalists in general, and the Mormons specifically, have to spend their last dollar and last breath fighting gay marriage.
In a talk on Sunday morning at the anti-heterosexism conference in West Palm Beach it was Rev. Deborah Johnson who explained this so well. She said if we fully understood the impact that it would have on them to be forced to admit that there is no such thing as absolute male and absolute female, then we would be more sympathetic with these religious extremists. It truly will be the end of their universe.
Can you just take a moment and imagine how hard it will be for them when their house of cards comes crashing down? At the end of the day, some of the fundamentalists may survive, but it will be the end of Mormonism. When you bet the farm on a crap shoot, you had better be able to consistently throw 7’s and 11’s.
This is what male and female currently look like to the religious fundamentalists. In their world, if anything happens to this model then it is the end of their religion. For whatever reason, if you eat steak on Friday or don’t get a circumcision, their world remains intact, but if you allow a man to fall in love with a man then 1 + 1 no longer equals 2. Never mind that it only ever happens to less than 4% of the human race and there will always be a source of babies from the other 96%.




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