Posts Tagged ‘prejudice’

Confronting My Bigotry in Salt Lake City

Friday, March 23rd, 2012
salt lake city temple

I consider myself a tolerant person. More than tolerant, I embrace the differences between myself and others. I seek to better understand and celebrate what makes us separate and what makes us the same. I’ve marched for gay rights, written against discrimination, and teach my children that prejudice is bad. And yet I found myself [...]

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Could I have prevented the holocaust? Can I stop the next one?

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Could I have helped prevent the holocaust if I had been living in Germany in the 1930s? This is a question I’ve asked myself repeatedly over the last few days.  I’m afraid I don’t have an answer.  I’m afraid of what that might mean for my country and my fellow Americans. Of course, we don’t [...]

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My Husband Thinks Homosexuality Is A Choice

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I don’t remember how the conversation started, exactly. It had something to do with the picture I chose to use in this post, although I’m not sure how the road turned from there to here. We were lying beside each other in the darkness, a momentary silence resting between us that seemed to be weighted [...]

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