http://www.scribd.com/doc/44716106/Homosexuality-a-Straight-BYU-Student-27s-Perspective-Draft-2h

it's also here if you have problems with scribd:
http://www.archive.org/download/Homosexuality-AStraightByuStudentsPersepective/44716106-Homosexuality-a-Straight-BYU-Student-27s-Perspective-Draft-2h.pdf

very interesting. (allegedly) full of all quotes from lds leaders on the topic of homosexuality.

i like the disclaimer in the beginning:
"Neither this book nor its believing LDS author opposes any official doctrine or policy of the LDS church."

intro:
"The average person on this earth has a twelve-fold better chance of having strong homosexual tendencies than of having membership in the LDS church. At 14 million members, the LDS
church constitutes about .21% of the world‘s 6.8 billion people. At even the most conservative consensus figures estimating the prevalence of homosexual orientation (3% of men and 2% of women), that means about 170 million homosexually oriented people worldwide—which is 12 times the number of church members. Even within the church, at that same prevalence, a very conservative estimate is that there are roughly 350,000 homosexually oriented members of the LDS church. Given the number of church units (wards and branches), the likelihood that at least a handful of homosexually oriented church members or ex-members live in your boundaries is extremely high. Bottom line? Homosexuality is neither rare nor insignificant.
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thanks for that download

I think I'm gonna print this off and show this to my father. I think he'll find it extremely interesting. He keeps leaving little LDS tidbits around me. I think it's only fair to nicely show him some back.

That's a really striking observation. Gays have Mormons beat by a mile on numbers. It's not even close.

God must clearly prefer gays to Mormons. ;-)

Q: what's the difference between gays and marmentism.

A: there's scientific evidence that homosexuality exists.


IOW, we can point to factual data that proves God created homosexuality.

Hence the smaller 'statistics' of homosexuals amoung LDS folk. What idiots

It even reads like the intro to the BoM! I always thought BYU was an idiot mill - no offense to any board members who attended.

It's not like I have a disability.

I just demand equal rights.

Those unfamiliar with it might also like to read Connell O'Donovan's:

"The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature":
A Revised History of Homosexuality & Mormonism, 1840-1980


http://connellodonovan.com/abom.html