Is polygamy part of the lgbtq community
Queer Polygamy
According to many accounts of LDS theology, polygamy, also called celestial marriage, is a necessary mandate for the highest degree of celestial glory. Doctrine and Covenants sections 131 and 132 tell us that celestial marriage and the continuation of the human family will facilitate us to become gods because we will hold endless, everlasting increase (D&C 132:20). The Doctrine and Covenants gives a blunt warning that if we do not abide by the law of polygamy, we cannot attain this glory (D&C 132:21). Likewise, prophets have stated that theosis and plural marriage are intimately intertwined. Brigham Young, the most notable advocate for mandated polygamy, stated, “The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who penetrate into polygamy.”[1] However, he also wrote, “if you desire with all your hearts to obtain the blessings which Abraham obtained you will be polygamists at least in your faith.”[2] It is absorbing that he uses the words “at least in your faith.” Was this to suggest that if a man cannot drill polygamy on earth, he will in heaven? Or is this to offer a man may never enter into a polygamous marriage, but may reside the spirit of
Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ
Definitions were drafted in collaboration with other U.S.-based LGBTQ group organizations and leaders. Watch acknowledgements section.
Additional terms and definitions about gender identity and gender statement, transgender people, and nonbinary people are available in the Transgender Glossary.
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*NOTE: Ask people what terms they exploit to describe their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression before assigning them a label. Outside of acronyms, these terms should only be capitalized when used at the beginning of a sentence.
LGBTQ
Acronym for homosexual woman, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. The Q generally stands for queer when LGBTQ organizations, leaders, and media use the acronym. In settings offering assist for youth, it can also stand for questioning. LGBT and LGBTQ+ are also used, with the + added in recognition of all non-straight, non-cisgender identities. (See Transgender Glossary ) Both are acceptable, as are other versions of this acronym. The term “gay community” should be avoided, as it does not accuratel
Bermuda Achieves Marriage Equality Through Supreme Court Ruling
Post submitted by Saurav Jung Thapa, former Associate Director, HRC Global
The Royal Gazette reported today that the Supreme Court of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, a collection of small North Atlantic islands, has legalized marriage equality.
Bermuda Supreme Court Justice Charles-Etta Simmons dictated this morning that the Registrar-General’s verdict to reject a marriage application from a gay couple was discriminatory on the basis of sexual orientation. The case had been brought by Bermudan Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé Greg DeRoche.
According to the Royal Gazette, the Supreme Court judgment declared that “same-sex couples are entitled to be married under the Marriage Act” of the area. Godwin and DeRoche won the case despite strong rivalry from the anti-equality group Preserve Marriage which had falsely claimed that allowing marriage equality would open the door to “multiple-partner marriages.”
Bernews published a remark from the Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda, a marriage equality group, which declared “The Rain
Yet another oppressed ‘sexual minority’: LGBT team up with polygamist community
I thought I should share with the readers of this blog this interesting paper written by Jaime Todd-Gher.
As a lawyer working for the Center for Reproductive Rights, Ms. Gher’s primary relate to is the promotion of abortion. But besides that, she also is woman-loving woman and has ‘married’ Ms. Amy Todd during the brief period in which same-sex ‘marriage’ was legal in California (i.e before it was abrogated by popular referendum).
In her manuscript, Ms. Gher takes on the charge of promoting the just cause of yet another oppressed sexual minority: polygamists. Though not herself professing to be one, Ms. Gher writes: “As such, strict monogamy, defined in terms of sexual encounters, is likely more of a human ideal than an actual biological reality.”
It seems logical, therefore, that she should explore the possibilities of coalition building between LGBT activists and the polygamist movement. She concludes:
“It is important when building a civil rights movement to be cognizant of analogous struggles faced by other minority populations, and aim to build bridge