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Regardless of which causation theory, it feels like God has broken my leg and asked me to run a mile in 6 minutes. I don’t have the words to express the level of anger, rage, frustration, hurt, disappointment, and abandonment I feel toward the church and God….

You break my heart.

God loves you. The Church loves you — at least those leaders and members who understand the teachings of Christ and are not blinded by politics and bigotry. There is a place for you in the Church, among those members who will accept you as a child of God, and not try to turn you into something you are not. I hope you can seek out and find those members.

I can only imagine how you feel. I believe that Black people felt (and feel) many of the same things when reading past statements by Church leaders saying that they bear the mark of Cain, were not valiant in the pre-existence, etc.

I recently stumbled across an address given by Elder McConkie a few months after the revelation allowing Blacks to fully participate in the Church. It has given me cause for hope as I have struggled with my “issues” with the Church.

Quote:

Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.

We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don’t matter any more.

I pray that someday an Apostle will give a similar talk about those attracted to their own gender. Until then, I hope you can focus on your own relationship with Heavenly Father and feel his love and acceptance.

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