Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

Carol Lynn Pearson

Carol Lynn Pearson Launches “Proposition Healing”
LGBT People and Mormons Encouraged to Share Meals, Stories

February 2010

Mormon author Carol Lynn Pearson has launched a new website, PropositionHealing.com, to help build understanding between the gay and the Mormon communities. Based on the idea that “breaking bread together brings good harvest,” the website encourages gay people and Mormons to have dinner together, share personal stories and feelings, and increase in understanding and appreciation for each other.

“If you are gay—reach out to that Mormon person at work or in your neighborhood,” Pearson writes. “If you are Mormon—speak to that gay person that you sort of know at the office or that is a friend of your friend or perhaps is your cousin. Create an invitation of your own, using anything useful on this site or whatever comes to your own mind and heart.”

Pearson says the idea is the product of her own experience of having supper with a small group of Mormons and gays in March, 2009. “Since then other small groups have come together for a similar experience. I think it’s an idea whose time has surely come.”

“We began to open up and share our heartfelt beliefs,” wrote one of the people who attended the original group. “We listened to one another. I gained so much more insight into the lives and feelings of my gay friends. I hope that someday many more people can find the peace and love that we experienced that night.”