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Carol Lynn Pearson Responds to Anti-Gay Statements July, 2004 The following statement, by renowned LDS writer Carol Lynn Pearson is a response to recent anti-gay statements made by Orson Scott Card. The statement will appear in the July 2004 issue of Sunstone magazine. Posted with permission of the author. I find myself still reflecting on the sad statement of Orson Scott Card in the article on the debate over gay marriage (Sunstone, March, 2004): "Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law." And I must respond on behalf of the many thousands of LDS women, including myself and my daughter, who have been the willing, naive sacrifices laid on the altar of false hope built by our church teachings, policies, encouragement and even promises of well-meaning but misguided LDS therapists, bishops, stake presidents and even general authorities. As I said to my good friend and neighbor and home teacher and former bishop as he came around a few years ago canvassing regarding California's "Protection of Marriage" initiative, "David, the deal is this--it's not that the brethren don't want gay men to marry. It's just that they want them to marry me, and they want them to marry my daughter, and that's not okay with me." It ought not to be okay with any of us. Seldom do one of these marriages "work" with any amount of satisfaction, and most of them end in enormous pain. Scott, would you really want one of your own daughters to be persuaded into marriage by one of our sweet, earnest, kind, talented, devoted but homosexual returned missionary men? Carol Lynn Pearson Walnut Creek, California See also:  Gerald Pearson's Memorial Page
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