Sacred Light

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My parents on their wedding day June 16th, 1947. Our sexuality is not something to be ashamed of, or to be embarrassed about, nor should it be forbidden to explore. It is a magnificent part of being human. The body is an amazing and beautiful gift for us to use while we are here! Our children should be taught healthy ways to express their sexuality, and we should be teaching them how to have healthy sexual relationships in life rather than teaching them to have guilt, shame, and fear surrounding their sexuality. Sex is a natural, normal, beautiful part of being human.               Clearly, the way the Mormons teach their youth about sexuality has failed, just look at the adult members of that church, and you can plainly see this malfunction. Statistics for Utah paint an alarming picture. Utah has a very high rate of child sexual abuse, an extremely high rate of antidepressant use and prescription pain relief usage, and, according to ...

Sex is perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings, because we are all sexual! ~ Sue Johanson I could write an entire book about the repressed sexual issues of men and women in the Mormon Church, but I won’t. Although, I am sure somebody will, someday. Nevertheless, I am going to set aside this post, and the next few, for vigorously vocalizing my opinions regarding the lessons on virginity and sexuality in general in Mormonism.         Jeffrey R. Holland, one of the current twelve apostles in the L.D.S. church, has said, “Setting aside sins against the Holy Ghost for a moment as a special category unto themselves, it is LDS doctrine that sexual transgression is second only to murder in the Lord’s list of life’s most serious sins . By assigning such rank to a physical appetite so con...

If you allow these old white men to dictate your underwear, you just might, possibly, be in a CULT! Family members did tell us some things to prepare us, before that cold March day in 1991 when we first went through the temple, even though you are not suppose to talk about what goes on in the temple to people who have not been through it; they told us what would happen because they didn’t want us to be freaked out during the actual ritual. How you received the garments back then could be uncomfortable, surprising, and even upsetting to some people if you were not prepared. You receive your new underwear before you do anything else in the temple. I was told by a trusted family member that I would be naked with a large cloth 'shield' covering me that was open on both sides for access to my body during the ritual. They also said that a woman would touch me on several parts of my body with both water and then oil as she prayed over me. I was told it was a beautiful ceremony ...