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Show OPINION CI - mtvEsoustwet- o4,t Religious revelation anything but prophetic because "God" said "nevermind." The church truly believes it can cause so much destruction and sadness and move on without é , BY RYANN HEINLEN AvereeRHeinIen The "hate the sin, love the sinner" mentality is fatal. In November of 2015, the Church of Jesus Christ Saints deof Latter-da- y clared same sex couples apostates and refused to baptize children of same sex couples unless they were not living with their parents and denounced their parents' "lifestyle." Before this year's biannual General Conference held on April the church announced that God changed his mind. All it took was thou sands of LGBTQ-- suicides and years of bad press. The church alienated children, forced LGBTQ members into heterosexual relationships, encouraged 6-- 7, F members to LGBTQ relinquish custody of their kids after divorces, and killed thousands of people allover the world. It's too late for me to believe that the church is true or under the jurisdiction of any god. The damage is done. Thousands are dead, but it's OK !!1:4 1.0 I ''''" "''''''' ,..'''"!7777"'"'"".' '.. ' 1! .,, N k. ,' ',' V - . ' -: -- -- . t, , , : :. - t '' 1 , ,..,... - - ' .- ' ' , - ' ,';'" , L,-- .. - -- - :,- i i 1 ::-- I y: - ' ' - - 1 ' 1; r, - - ---: 1 Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and major. Letters are subjectto editing for length, style and grammar. Letters consisting of inaccurate, libelous or highly offensive content will not be published. Letters should be submitted to dixiesundixie.edu in the body of the email, not an attachment. Letters become property of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News enlively' discussion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. J- ' H--- ,),'7- -' ; -- ,'T - -- -. ...,' -.' ' ',,,L,', '1 ',. ',;.-i'' - f - ' - .'' ,'' ''' ' ', ; ....,........;-1,,,- iir ... - '.. .', ' i .., '; ' - .11 - ' ; '' 'Ilk; : i " -- '' - 7 , - - ,. ' ;'.',",..',,' 1 'r. '' f l':' '17,..', 7'.. I - 1 .j ,,, -,- --, e .- It , -- ;'',- ';- , . , ''' - '( -- S', q - 1-- : .', .. ,..,!,,, ,, n. F:r: , t,', i ,,.,- ,- v, - ,, ,,, , ' ,' , e ' ),-,(,- .,.,., ,,,, ,., , . , ,, I s, ,' , 1 -- . ,, 4 .. , , , ' - ' 7 - - 1., - .,, - ., ,,, A4 "1,---- T,,,, . , , , - ' ) - I ' I n t& ..'!.Y .: it . " A,..v",'-'''''- :. ., ..... ' '. ' ,''',..40, 4?4,,,..'''NN .. ' - n , - ., '-- : I ,, s. 1,, P ,,'' '',, ,i , ,..., , . ,.. 2r Saints' Salt Lake City Temple. Missionaries, members and tourists gather outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Every six months, members of the church congregate at the Salt Lake City conference center to hear revelations from their prophet. LGBTQ people. I am not going to reward tolerance; I am going to expect ac- ceptance. If the church truly wants "to reduce the hate and contention so common today," it needs to start with its own rhetoric. To say that the LGBTQ "struggle with same sex attraction" is condescending. The church encourages LGBTQ members to suffer and struggle in this life with a promise that they "will be made straight" in the next; that's psychological and spiritual abuse. That mentality is despicable. Now the church wants the 1,GBTQF community to bring in their children to be baptized. It wants to preach to the children of same sex couples that homosexuality is a sin. It wants to carry on like nothing ever happened. Nothing can take back the heinous acts of the CLUTT iCE .LIT 17 le U o,a, r) e, -- K! 7"---1 miL. I BY STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG Guest Columnist Jenny Lewis has returned with her fourth solo release, "On the Line," a meditative and often melancholy series of songs, many of them about her life as a working rock 'n' roll musician. After more than 20 years of steady touring and recording, her voice has lost a touch of its easy beauty, perhaps, yet the enormous range remains, and Lewis, the e child actor, uses the lightly roughened new self-referenti- al one-tim- , - - ,g N , -i ..-:.- ,,,...;,-,------,- ,,,,,--- i ,, ....- , 7,.: - , :.., .., ,. " - '',A 1....: ,. , , ' I church, but an apology is a start. The church needs to apologize for its own misconceptions leading to the disownment and death of thousands. Reinstate the members that were excommunicated from the church or expelled from their universities. Issue an apology to the members and the families who were affected. Hold hateful acts at the same standard that you hold adultery or drinking alcohol. don't owe the church anything, especially an apology. I'm not sorry for I who I am and who I love. After all, the church never has to apologize, so why should I? you or someone you know may be considering suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 8255. If 42mrtiAATI well-writte- courages a -- - t -' , , a hateful, bigoted, homophobic agendas. The church forced members to break off relationships with LGBTQ friends and family in the name of their spiritual eternity and then rescinded it without an explanation, an apology, at the very least or an "oops." This reversal is not from the mouth of God to the ear of a prophet; the church is gaslighting its parishioners. Have we really come to expect so little from those in leadership positions that something so normal should be celebrated? Have we really come to expect so little from a church that a policy change that promotes "loving thy neighbor" is a sign that God exists? I am not going to celebrate an organization for offering basic human rights to 1;4z t 1 ilia 1.:4 - - it 7, .,' - )),, ' , i ,,.' ,' !'.:( 7. , rl ' ..', - ir ," - ,i,!...,,,..-- ., i 2,---;:- 7- ':-.-- i, '', ,,,, : 1,f11-,;- ' i', - . 7:.-:- '.''" I,. -,,-- - , - f',--- , , -- , -- ,s7 -- , - ; - - i ' ,. y ' ' .,1' ,,,,fz,--, - 400 ' - . , 1,1,,I t ,' ,- , , :t . 1 , 1! .. - i 1 --- .,,' " '''''':'' ,,, 24Iti, ' ' - ' .''', .' ' 14 '''''',,' .,.,': '' -H.: T " ''';"-- r- ' , ,,,,,,,,,:,A., l .) ',: , ,,,, k ..''.1. ' -- ' t's,,, ''" ,,er ' ,,,;--' .. . '7:-,, t , - ,, - , an apology. Some members argue that the prophet let his own bias get in the way of the word of God the day the policy was created. These same members encouraged the LGBTQ members to try to understand the hateful policy established in 2015; these same members used the policy to fight against same sex marriage and adoption. If the prophet is indeed "human" and "imperfect," you can not hide behind him to cover your Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixia edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in the newspaper andor dixiesunnews. corn. The guidelines for letters are as follows: , N7''''' e: 7. 0 ! ,,, - U":3i':1641 . 41..imimpa,, .,, r- .P0,1nr,11 P'.' ...,, , . .,..,., 4 ,,.. . :,. , , 7 LL L---,)- : : ;1 ',...': ., ,... ,,S.4 '..:;,21011, IT' sound of her vocal cords to maximize the music's emotive reach. on a track like "Taffy," p she coos over the notes of her piano, lamenting the strains maintaining a love affair presents to someone who spends so much of her time in transit: "I stole a Christmas tree You stood watching the hotel hall I It lit up our room like a waning moon of melting plastic." And on the bouncing number that closes the record, "Rabbit Hole," she sounds not a little unlike Kiki "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Dee as she wards off an old lover's advances: "It was a sexual kind of connection With spiritual undertones I But boy you had me second guessing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones I I'm not gonna go down the rabbit hole with you again." The influence of such familiar American chan drip-dro- i teuse figures as Linda Ronstadt, Carole King and Bonnie Raitt resounds through the sturdy compositions that make up this excellent album. But producers Beck, Don Was and Lewis's longtime creative collaborator, the scandal-damage- d Ryan Adams, introduce an eNperimental aspect to the music, too, drizzling the compositions with electronic elements, found sounds and quixotic beats borrowed from shoegaze, dream pop and Jenny Lewis is modern rock's most important, most original and "On the Line" proves it. So, this is my last column for the year. I'm grateful to my editors and the readers for the chance to preach the gospel of rock 'n' roll over the past nine months. All the acts I've covered, though, have had contracts with the larger labels, and I'd like to close with hip-ho- singer-songwrite- p. r, bit of ink spilled for St. George's own indie rocker outfit, NVM. a A NVM four-piec- e, consistently kicks out a potent hash of emo, hardcore, and prog, with a touch of Syd Barrett here, some Sid Vicious there. The world has begun to take notice, too. In March, NVM opened for alternative metal giants Puddle of Mudd in Grand Junction, playing new tracks from their "Thermal Memory" album. The band has got some local gigs scheduled over the next couple of weeks, as well. Get smart, and check these guys out before they grow too big for little St. Geezy. ), , ,, i ,- - 7 TII 1 . . , , ,,, 1 - 7) iír, , ..;--- k , ,11in , V ,.., k.t ... - k- 1.- -gi WHO IS JENNY LEWIS? Jennifer Diane Lewis is a musician, and actress. She was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the indie rock band ey. ey. ey. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA 7M,MENIV I C - kcttfl, I t! : WHO IS NVM? 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