Amusement About Market Days

[aadroma]

My old synagogue will have a booth up at Market Days, and apparently that booth is being shared with the Gay Mormons of America.

Erm, am I the only one that sees something wrong there? Once you come out as gay don't you get excommunicated from the Mormon church and thus aren't considered Mormon?? o_O

nytemarewulf and I are packing now to head up to Chicago

Comments

[cpratt]

Yeah, but what if you consider yourself a Mormon?

[I don't get it either...]

[hapaxeslegomena]

I work with a woman whose son is a leader in the gay Mormon community, and they just found out recently that he would not be excommunicated. It came down to the decision of the local clergy; I’m not sure how much of it was due to open-mindedness on the part of the bishop, and how much was due to any political sway the family might have.

[hippierage]

it was probably neither.
the church has not excommunicated me. I am defellowshipped. It is the local council of the 12's ultimate decision but some of us are immune to being excommunicated for that. See: Patriarchial blessings.

[hapaxeslegomena]

Well, he wasn’t defellowshipped, either.

[hippierage]

Unless they have a really really good reason that won't make it past Salt Lake. In the LDS church all things flow up to Salt Lake City for final approval. When I was 15 the Fayetville Stake President (area leader) excommunicated his own son.

[hippierage]

just because you are ex-communicated doesn't mean you don't continue to identify as one. being mormon is more like a race or ethnicity or country of origin. Just because you move from the USA to England doesn't mean being American isn't still part of who you are.

I speak from personal experience.

[aadroma]

Okay, so it's similar to lapsed Catholics still considering themselves Catholic despite the fact that they may even have negative feelings towards the chuch and believe none of the beliefs.

I would figure that someone who is cut like that from Mormondom would, likewise, try to distance himself FROM the Mormon church -- but again, if you spent a great deal of your life as a Mormon it's not like it just disappears ...

[jrcubindy]

Well, apparently in the eyes on maninsteam gay america, we're supposed to be too FABULOUS to be into things like comic books.

[jrcubindy]

Oh, you mean, Senor Overexposure?

[gaymafiakingpin]

I believe that as long as a gay Mormon doesn't act on his feelings, he won't be excommunicated. I'm gonna ask Jared... he'll know.

Please hold...

[hold music plays some musak version of a celine dion song]

...

[gaymafiakingpin]

[phone clicks]

Oh, thank you for holding...

Well, Jared isn't answering the text message I sent him and I'm too impatient to wait more than four minutes.

I did find this tidbit of information: Clicky, clicky!