Talk:Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

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[edit] Affirmation and the LDS Church section

Recently an unregistered user came in and rewrote this section not adhering to NPOV. They also removed the main article link to the article I had written & referenced awhile ago to address many of these unreferenced, nonNPOV issues.

I've added back in some of the original content, but left in changes I thought were valuable additions.

One more thing to that editor and other editors with this misconception; aversion therapy, when using shocks as a negative stimulus, is not electroconvulsive therapy! Please don't call it that. It is misleading, wrong, not to mention embarrassing to Wikipedia. Chupper 00:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I removed paragraph "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints considers homosexual behavior..." etc. Notice that the section, and the article, are about Affirmation--not about the LDS Church. Link still refers people to article on homosexuality and the LDS Church.

[edit] Ex-Mormon

I removed link to Ex-Mormon. Affirmation is an organization for gay & lesbian Mormons, not for gay and lesbian ex-Mormons.

[edit] LDS Lobbying

I changed it where it said, "some Afirmation members in Salt Lake City protested the LDS Church’s lobbying and funding of initiatives in California and other states that were directed against homosexual behavior." The LDS Lobbying was aginst same-sex marraige, not against homosexual behavior.

I reverted the change. Marrying someone of your own gender is a homosexual behavior. When asked about gay marriages, Gordon B. Hinckly, president of the LDS Church, said "We're not anti-gay. We are pro-family." See the CNN interview with Larry King. You could say they were directed against same-sex marriages, but not against gays.Joshuajohanson 16:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)