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DEALING WITH IT - UNDERSTANDING THE TEACHING OF DIVINE HETEROSEXUALITY
"The problem for Mormons who are gay
or lesbian, I've found, is that we'd been
raised to want and expect more than love
from God. We've been conditioned to believe
that we, somehow, are a 'chosen' people who
will become exactly like God - vested in
complete bodies of flesh and bone, capable
of producing progeny eternally through a
kind of Divine heterosexuality. We had been
told that God loves us all, but only the
worthy will become exactly like Him and His
Eternal Bride...like Them, able to stay in
their heterosexual relationship in heaven.
The hidden message was that it would take
more than the 'mere love of God' to become
like Him and meet our reason for being. I
began to see what I'd never seen before.
I began to understand that we had, in a very
specific and systematic way, accepted a concept
of God that promoted our own self-hatred
if our inner nature didn't add up to that
concept.
"Because of that concept, we placed an awful guilt on ourselves that ran much deeper than most fundamentalists' guilt. We let this belief in our innate inability to become heterosexual gods block us from developing love and faith unto which we are all called to grow, especially any expecting to be 'Heirs of God.'"
- from "Out of the Bishop's Closet" by Antonio A. Feliz, Arrow Square Press, Second Ed., 1992