Gay PDA at Church?
I’ve been away for awhile and, I’m not sure anyone even stops by here anymore. No, androgynous Prudence Brown nor his buddy Napoleonic Steve didn’t scare me out of the bloggernacle. Things have just been very hectic at work and supporting the wife and three girls at home and assisting my son on his mission and a daughter w/ education expenses all takes precedence over the free entertainment of pulling the chains of people who take themselves far too seriously.
There’s a neat open discussion going on at Nine Moons about gay Mormons. So I have a question that seems to be beneath the typical bloggernacle snobs. For background, the LDS church has more effeminate men than any organization I’ve ever been involved in, and this has been the case for the 35 years or so I’ve been a member (was born Catholic). BYU is like flammer Mecca. I assume most are gay, but even if only a fraction of these light-on-their-feet types are gay, our church has plenty of homosexuals. Of course, many homosexuals are straight acting. I served w/ some great missionaries that I only later learned are gay (sadly, most tried marriage, and are today divorced and no longer LDS).
So to the question, since the church now has the slogan “gays are welcome in the church”, where’s all the gay PDA at church? Yeah, I know some LDS flammers are bi and chose heterosexuality (seems to be the case with some GAs), and other LDS gays are just old fashioned self repressed or in the closet, but some are out now and yet you never see these guys holding another man’s hand at church, kissing, etc. Why are all active LDS gays still in the closet at church in 2005?
Steve EM
