Excerpts from the just-published heartbreaking memoir of LDS historian D. Michael Quinn as he wrestles with the inner turmoil created by his same-sex attraction and his church, which saw homosexuality as sin.
He dreamed of being an LDS apostle, but his truth-telling about church history left him outside the faith
With the posthumous release of his sometimes painfully frank journals, readers witness Quinn’s true self as he strives to be as honest on the printed page about his own history — including “embarrassing, awkward or difficult” episodes, says his son Moshe Quinn — as he wanted his church to be in telling its past.
LeGrand Richards came to our ward to visit his daughter…and spoke to our small group of teenagers…. to “ask any question you want.”...I then asked about Brigham Young’s teaching in 1852 that Adam is “our God.” My second question was about apostle John W. Taylor’s being punished for marrying spiritual plural wives after the 1890 Manifesto. He replied that he finds it necessary to place many of the statements of Brigham Young and other early church leaders on the shelf until the Lord reveals more.
Spencer W. Kimball, right, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presides the October 1978 General Conference with one of his counselor, Marion G. Romney.I left the Historical Department this day with a profound awareness that my commitment to full disclosure in writing the history of the LDS Church was more extreme than the kind of openness Leonard advocated…It was so odd for me to feel religiously conservative and yet to be regarded as some kind of radical.
I was excommunicated from the LDS Church exactly six months before I turned 50, the age at which I once thought I would be an apostle.‘Mormon Land’: Remembering historian D. Michael Quinn — his contributions, his conflicts, his legacy and his life
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