Why do religious people not approve of homosexuality?

[marshlander]

In 2005 the man I was in love with married a girl because they were both LDS. He told me he loved me, and that if I was a woman it would have been me. We'd been friends for years, always flirtying etc but never doing much. And then that.

I've never stopped crying, and this thread brought it all back tonight

So sorry to hear that, Serfdom. Having been brought up LDS, I can say that the conditioning goes very deep :frown: It took me until my fourth decade to begin to face the reality of my situation. Sadly, I believe his wife is probably in for the same kind of shock as mine had a few years ago when I finally came out, first to myself and then to her. For a church that claims to have a "prophet, seer and revelator" at its head on earth, the Mormon leadership is remarkably ill-informed about what makes people tick.

If you have the time here's a link to a long, but beautifully related, true story of a man who, like me, had to face the lies that we'd been told over the years. He is now in a happy relationship with his male partner.
http://www.exmormon.org/boards/w-agora/v...ite=exmobb

I hope you find a way to deal with your sorrow, but if you can find it in your heart, save a little sympathy for the man you loved and specially some for his wife. They are both going to deal with some painful truths over the coming years.