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LDSResources.info Includes Professional, Spiritual Perspectives A group of LDS authors and scholars have joined efforts to create of LDSResources.info, a website providing LDS families with reliable information on homosexuality. "The central material around which this site is organized is the 1995 Ensign article by Elder Dallin Oaks on Same Gender Attraction," read the site. "All the materials found here have been selected because they are supportive of Elder Oaks's article and are meant to reinforce the compassionate and definitive material he presents." The contributors are all professionals who write about homosexuality from biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. William S. Bradshaw is Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University. Robert A. Rees is Director of Education and Humanities at the Institute of HeartMath. Ron Schow is a professor of Audiology in the College of Health Professions at Idaho State University. Marybeth Raynes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Salt Lake City. "The website contributors include counselors and other health-care professionals, researchers, educators, and ecclesiastical leaders," the site explains. "Most bring the additional credential of being a parent of a gay or lesbian child. We address this subject because our collective experience—familial, clinical, academic, ecclesiastical—has led to notable similarities of observation and understanding." The site includes a compete version of A Guide for Latter-day Saint Families Dealing with Homosexual Attraction, a new publication also available as a 40-page booklet at the BYU Bookstore. "The information contained [in this guide] is designed to help families deal successfully with the complexities of having a child, spouse or other relative who is attracted to those of the same gender," reads the introduction. "Members of the Church are counseled to assist individuals and families dealing with homosexuality. As President Gordon B. Hinckley has said, in speaking of the Church's attitude toward homosexuals, 'We want to help these people, to strengthen them, to assist them with their problems and to help them with their difficulties.'"
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www.affirmation.org