queerstake

[queerstake]

“People say, “Well, Joseph only sealed men and women in the sealing power.” If you’re using that as your precedent, you are not having the humility that’s born out of the historical context. Where I’m sure Joseph, if same-gender marriage had already been the law of the land in 1830, he would have gotten the sealing power and been like, “Oh, of course we can seal them together.” He didn’t think about it. He didn’t think about one way or the other. People just go in with a lot of assumptions, a lot of arrogance to say, “Well, only cis-gender people of opposite genders can be sealed.” I mean, that’s not in our sources. Here’s a trick that no homophobe in the church has ever given me a good answer for. Ask them “what year did same-gender marriage become officially condemned in the church?” They can’t point to a year. And if they do, there’s a flaw in their reasoning. If they point to the Proclamation and say, “That’s when it started,”, no, because then you’re saying there wasn’t a prior and legitimate basis in our sources before the Nineties for the condemnation of same-gender marriage. If you look back in the Kimball years, he really bases it on the Bible and not on any modern revelation, so you can’t pin down a year. You try to go to the year of the sealing power in 1836, that’s not a basis. And then if you try to say, “Well, it’s always been wrong. It’s always been condemned back to 1830.” Then you’ve got a real problem because that’s not based on any revelation in 1830. What you’re saying is the church was started and just absorbed and continued the policy of everyone around them without reflecting. Kind of like with racism, where they just absorbed and didn’t second guess or double-check everything that they absorbed from what around them. So my view is we haven’t officially, and even the Proclamation doesn’t say anything against same-gender marriage. It does talk about same-gender procreative powers, but it never addresses the issue of marriage. Anyway, that’s a long way around. I was talking about God gives stuff to his servants according to their language, whatever language they have, whatever they bring, whatever questions they bring to the Lord. And I don’t think we’ve really brought this question to the Lord around LGBT folks.”

— Derek Knox, Episode 85 The Lord’s Preface, Beyond the Block podcast

[queerstake]

Deeply religious openly queer people are God's strongest soldiers. Constantly justifying their own existence to everyone from all sides...Phew

[queerstake]

[queerstake]

Mosiah 24:14

[queerstake]

Hello! I just found out about this app called Carry and it’s a bible study app that lets you study the Bible with other people.

I’ve made a group for tumblrstake if you’d like to join. We’re going to be reading Genesis together starting tomorrow! Click here for the link to join the group.

Here are some screenshots:

[queerstake]

I hope and pray that one day we will not feel torn between our queerness and our faith. That the generations after us will scoff in disbelief when we tell them what used to be preached from the pulpit. That young queer kids will grow up knowing they are whole, that they are loved, that they are exactly who they were meant to be.

[queerstake]

Conclave (2024)

[queerstake]

a very merry christmas to all the mormons in my phone

[queerstake]

I've gotten past the point of being able to give a deep answer when people ask me why/how I stay in the church as a queer person. "Why do you stay?" because fuck the people who want me out, this is my home and I'm not leaving. "How do you stay?" by repeating the mental litany of "fuck you" to everything that tries to drive me out. "How do you reconcile your identity with your faith?" I reconcile it by fuck you. I choose the life I want to lead and nothing will prevent me from it.

[queerstake]

"I don't know if I'll stay in the church, the community, the culture that created me. I don't know if I'll live the kind of life my parents and ancestors did, or if I'll forge my own path in the dark. I don't know if I'll stay or go, though I want to stay. I want to stay as much as I want to live happily inside my own soul. I'll stay as long as I can do both. I do know that if I'm ever forced to choose, I will choose myself"

- Ellis Kimball in "Let's Call it a Doomsday" by Katie Henry

[queerstake]

[queerstake]

Any LDS people on the Aro-Ace spectrum willing to share experiences?

Hello!

I am trying to write a research paper on the intersection of Asexuality and Aromanticism when it comes to being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

As an aspec person myself, and an active member, I'd be more than happy to hear any experiences from active and former members alike! I'd like to get as many voices as I can on this project, so I would greatly appreciate anyone willing to share.

[queerstake]

[through gritted teeth, with fists clenched]

When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE, AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE-

[queerstake]

are there enough people on here to make #afrostake more than a personal tag?

rb for reach is appreciated if you have tumblrstake moots and are comfortable with rb-ing.

[queerstake]

i say this sort of thing all the time but people love to make fun of mormons for fake lame stuff when they could go after the weird stuff. "ohhh you have closed religious practices that's so-" shut up you dont even know about The Three Nephites

[queerstake]

Mormon writing contest, deadline 4th of November.

@the-arch-hive

[queerstake]

The Gospel clearly states and bluntly illustrates that in history, God takes sides. God takes sides, not in terms of being against, but in terms of suffering with the poor, the oppressed, those unjustly treated. The suffering of God is a consequence of God's taking sides. This presence with the poor is unconditional.

Fr. Roberto Ubertino