
Book Table of Contents
VOLUME ONE
Preface Lavina Fielding Anderson
Introduction: A Call to Zion
PART 1 - THE STUMBLING BLOCKS: OBSTACLES TO ACCEPTANCE
Introduction: Encountering the “Clobber Scriptures”
1 - The “Sin” of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:1-11)
2 - Leviticus 18:22, 20:13: The Law of Moses Holiness Codes
3 - The New Testament Scriptures
4 - The Modern-Day Church: Other Beliefs that Inhibit Acceptance
PART 2 - STEPPING-STONES TOWARD A ZION COMMUNITY
Introduction: The Search for “Things as They Are”
5 - The Concept of a Zion People
6 - Gender and Sexual Diversity in the Animal Kingdom
7 - Intersex and Transgender Diversity in Human Experience
8 - God: Our Heavenly Parents
9 - Reparative Therapy—From What?
10 - Neurology and Homosexuality
11 - Psychological Explanations for Homosexuality
12 - Bisexuality: Ambidextrous Sexual Orientation?
13 - All of God’s Children: A Search for Truth
14 - Overcoming the Traditions of Our Foreparents
15 - The Other Scriptures: Toward Full Inclusiveness
16 - Enlarging Our Understanding of Chosen People: Sexual Minorities in Scripture
17 - Celibacy, Cohabitation, or Marriage
PART 3 - THE RESTORATION AND CONTINUAL REVELATION: MORE STEPPING-STONES
Introduction: Envisioning Change
18 - Expansiveness in “The Restoration of All Things”
19 - Free Agency and Gospel Principles
20 - The New and Everlasting Covenant: Doctrine and Covenants 131-132
21 - Temple Ordinances and Priesthood “Sealing Power”
22 - Same-Sex Sealings and the Law of Adoption
23 - Personal Revelation: Another Stepping-Stone
24 - Communicating with Church Leaders
25 - Parents Pleading for Their Children
VOLUME TWO
PART 4 - THE CHURCH IN CRISIS
Introduction: Stumbling over Tradition
26 - “We Love Them as Sons and Daughters”
27 - “Love The Sinner, Hate the Sin”: Official Anti-Gay Rhetoric, 1970S-2004
28 - The Dallin H. Oaks/Lance B. Wickman Interview, 2006, and Other Legal Matters
29 - Struggling with Church Policies
30 - Rejection, Homelessness, Suicide and Violence
31 - “The Divine Institution of Marriage,” 2008
32 - Proposition 8: Damage and Reconstruction
33 - Post-2008: Isn’t One Black Eye Enough?
34 - The U.S. Supreme Court Rulings, 2014 and 2015
35 - Onward, Christian Soldiers! The Church at War Against Itself
36 - Realizing the Need for Change
PART 5 - STEPPING UP TO ZION
Introduction: Building the Waste Places
37 - Soul Force: Satyagraha
38 - Rebellion Against Tradition
39 - Restoration in Process
40 - The Stepping-Stones of Hope and Reconciliation
41 - Jesus Christ and the Pure in Heart
PART 6 - APPENDICES
Appendix A
Part 1: Bible References to “Sodomite,” “Sodom and Gomorrah”
Part 2: Scriptures Quoted in President Spencer W. Kimball’s Writings
Appendix B
Part 1: Translations and Additional Definitions
Part 2: New Testament Discussion of Same-Sex References
Part 3: Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:5
Part 4: All the Eunuchs in the Bible
Appendix C
Intersex Resources
Appendix D
Walter Curtis’s Correspondence with President Hinckley’s Office
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX:
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