From the writings of Carol Lynn Pearson, directed to those who have chosen to remain with the Mormon Church:
"I remember such great lessons in Mutual [Mormon youth group] about being very careful whom we associated with. 'Don’t expect to play in the coal bin and not come out dirty.' 'You will be judged by the company you keep.' I am so grieved to see whom my church has chosen as friends in this campaign to pass Proposition 8. We have gotten into bed with some of the most extreme of the "Religious Right," some of whom are well known as hate mongers. This was not a mutually affectionate liaison. We have been raped by organizations that hate the Mormons but love our money and our energy. We have been raped, and now are we pregnant with their fear and their hate? Much of the rhetoric we use they have put in our mouths, based more in fear than in fact. I have never before in my church observed the pain and the divisiveness and the fear that I am seeing now–fear of embracing the homosexual enemy, fear of ourselves being seen as disloyal if we don’t join in. It is very hard for me to see this happen in my church."
[emphasis added by me]
From where she finds the strength to stay in the church I have no idea. She is as altruistic in her desire to "bring change from within" as I am that every gay Mormon will see that The Emperor Has No Clothes and leave before permanent damage is incurred to their soul.
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