This Day In Gay Utah History October 25

October 25th

1979- Approximately 40 men and women formed the Gay Awareness League in Pocatello to increase awareness of the existence and needs of Gays in Pocatello and eastern Idaho. 

The Lovebirds

1987 AIDS Project Utah sponsored “Laugh for a Life” again with Roseanne Barr, and comedians Pam Matteson and Louie Anderson at Symphony Hall. The Salt Lake Men’s Choir and the Lovebirds, who were the first gay drag performers to play at Symphony Hall, were local acts. Roseanne Barr at Symphony Hall

1987-Over 100 people demonstrated in St Paul Minnesota to demand that Sharon Kowalski, a lesbian who suffered brain injury and paralysis from an auto accident in 1983, be allowed to see her partner, Karen Thompson. Kowalski's father had barred Thompson from visiting her.

Ben Barr

1988 "Ben Barr called me to give me names of people who want to do some AIDS quilt panels for the Utah AIDS Memorial Quilt Project. There is a renewed interest in the project now that the Names Project will be bringing portions of the quilt to Utah as part of a national tour.  I talked to Chuck Whyte the other day about meeting with Bruce Harmon for an accounting of the money we raised last Spring. Its about $300 and is just sitting somewhere and we could use it this project. We have not had a formal meeting of the AIDS Quilt Project since last April. (journal of Ben Williams)

Cleve Jones

1997 .People With AIDS Coalition honors 6 heroes : BY HELEN FORSBERG THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE   Cleve Jones left the crowd quiet and thoughtful as he spoke of the AIDS pandemic. ``We are living on borrowed time. .. . We are not at the end of the storm.''   Jones, San Francisco, founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, was a speaker at the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah's fourth Community Awards Banquet at the Salt Lake Hilton.   Honored were Pete Suazo, Political/Social Policy Award; Don Austin, Kristen Ries Professional Award; Brook Heart-Song, Red Ribbon Award for an Individual; Utah AIDS Foundation, Red Ribbon Award for an Organization; Carolyn Jones, People With AIDS Coalition of Utah Volunteer Award; and Smart Bodies/Jacquie Zacher-Becker, Business Award. Suazo spoke movingly of his sister's AIDS death in 1991, while Jones told how the

Pete Suazo

AIDS death of a family member was the impetus for her volunteer work. There were light moments during the annual event, particularly as guests mingled, sipped wine and looked at art work featured in the silent auction.   Art works purchased included those of Ursula Brodauf-Craig, Norma Forsberg, Randall Lake, Kim Martinez, Lori Mehan, Tom Mulder, Chad Smith, Trevor Southey, Bonnie Sucec and Theodore M. Wassmer.   Among those attending were Robert Chase, chairman of the coalition's board; Pam Mazaheri, coalition director; Christopher Ruud, Chad Smith and Dell Larsen, Brett Clifford, Ron Lyman, Leonard Frost, Jody Gibson, Julie Mohr, Craig Phillips, Allan Gates, Leanne Bennett, Gary Clark and Richard Cottino. Carol Gnade, Cori Sutherland and Linda Hunt represented the ACLU. Leslie Peterson, Kevin Higgins, Douglas Kinney-Frost, Mikell Kinney-Frost and Paul Dorgan from the Utah Opera attended. Dancers of Ballet West purchased a table, but were performing in the company's season opener the same night.   Zacher-Becker came with her children, Tyler Zacher and Sterling Becker, and Carolyn Jones was accompanied by her father, Robert Baldwin.   Also in the crowd: Kristen Ries, Maggie Snyder, Larry Reimer, the Rev. France Davis, the Rev. Jerome Council, Terrlynn Crenshaw, Barbara and Frank Shaw, Kim Russo, Anne Stromness, Paula Campbell, Lorraine Miller, Randy and Dee Peterson, Judy Rollins, Lance Gudmundsen, Jeff Manookian, Lou Arnold, Bruce Romney, Debra Hummel and Michael Westley.10/26/97 Page: J5 

1997 A brief history of transgenderism Byline: BY PATTY HENETZ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE  Some of the earliest accounts of transgenderism are from ancient Greece and Rome.   The Roman emperor Nero is said to have married a castrated slave after murdering his pregnant wife. In Greek myths, males are turned to females for punishment, though the punishment is of questionable value since the transformed women report greater sexual pleasure in their new roles. Transsexual priestesses known as gallae served a female Phrygian deity believed to date back to the Stone Age.   North American Indian tribes traditionally have been tolerant of cross-gendereds, known as Two-Spirits. Many African tribes have worshiped intersexual deities, and male-to-female shamans have been documented in South America. Evidence of Amazon warriors has been found in Asia. And transgendered political groups such as the Welsh Rebeccas and the Irish Molly Maguires were peasant militants.   Perhaps the most famous transgendered person is Joan of Arc, the 15th-century insurrectionist called homasse, a slur meaning masculine woman. At age 17, dressed in men's clothing, Joan led her peasant army in a rout of the English from what would become the liberated nation-state of France.   At English urging, the Roman Catholic Church condemned Joan for her paganism -- and her cross-dressing, which particularly provoked Grand Inquisitors.   Told she could not attend Mass before her execution unless she wore women's clothes, Joan agreed. But for some reason – historians say guards may have hidden her female attire to sabotage her -- Joan wore men's clothes. The priests, deciding Joan was a witch trying to appropriate the power of men, set her on fire. On May 30, 1491, she was burned at the stake. Afterward, bystanders raked her charred clothing off her corpse to see that she was indeed female. Rudolf Dekker and Lotte van de Pol, scholars at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, argue that in early modern Europe, women who dressed like men were not merely curiosities but rather part of a deeply rooted tradition, especially in the Netherlands, England and Germany. To pass themselves off as men was an option for women who had fallen onto bad times, wanted to enlist in the army or wanted to marry other women.   By the close of the 17th century, cross-dressers in England were publicly humiliated, hanged or both. But in 18th-century France, a member of Louis XV's court lived his first 49 years as a man and her last 34 years as a woman. While many believed the Chevalier d'Eon -- sent on spy missions to Russian in the guise of a woman -- was born female, an autopsy showed him to be a biological male.   In 1953, ex-serviceman George Jorgensen went to Denmark and came home to America as Christine Jorgensen, media sensation.   By the 1980s, the public embraced androgynous stars such as David Bowie, Boy George, Prince, Grace Jones and Madonna. Yet jazz musician Billy Tipton, a woman who lived as a man, died in 1989 of a bleeding ulcer rather than go to a doctor who might reveal his secret-- which a coroner did instead.   From Shakespeare to Mrs. Doubtfire, from Little Richard to RuPaul, the stage has been the safest public space for transgendereds and those acting like them. For nearly 20 years at midnight showings of ``The Rocky Horror Picture Show,''movie goers worldwide have dressed in costumes to celebrate Frank N. Furter, the sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.   In Salt Lake City, the annual Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire drag ball nets some $20,000 a year for AIDS charity and

Jeff Kosewski

scholarships, says Jeff Kosewski, Royal Court emperor and organization co-president. The ball, once underground, now convenes in the Salt Palace; two years ago, ball goers peacefully shared the Palace with a massive bowlers' convention.   But even such generally accepted transgender activities have their critics. According to an unsigned article in the November 1995 issue of The Journal of Gender Studies, drag performances are little more than gender minstrel shows that debase women by endowing them with artifice and then belittling it. ``Breasts, elaborately coiffured hair, exaggerated make-up and mannerisms are deployed as props in a performance,'' the author says. ``The man in a frock looks preposterous, but this is just a shadow of the essential preposterousness of the female body itself.''Page: J4 

Barbara Ester & Beth York

2003 BARBARA ESTER AND BETH YORK IN CONCERT OCTOBER 25 7:30 P.M.  THE CENTER, SLC  Barbara will perform a variety of her music and some "Women's Music" favorites Be Prepared for a heartfelt and engaging evening  Barbara is a lesbian singer/songwriter with three recordings on her own label. She has been singing her heart out for audiences for over 30 years. Her message is passionately Lesbian affirming,  her voice strong like the wimmin she sings about. Living in Utah since '95, she opened for Alix Dobkin in Salt Lake in '96.   This past May, Barbara and Beth performed at the Southern Womyn's Festival. Beth, a sensitive musician and composer, heads the music therapy department at Utah State. Barbara is also a featured soloist on Kay Gardner's, "OUROBOROS" which premiered at the 20th National Women's Music festival. Ticket sales 7:00pm at the door $15.00/Sliding Scale Performance held at the Gay & Lesbian Center of Utah Black Box Theater 361 North 300 West Salt Lake City Page: J4 

2004  Anti-PFLAG protesters chime in on issues during rally outside Conference By Jason Bergreen The Salt Lake Tribune... Sign carrying protesters rallied outside a Salt Lake City hotel Sunday, loudly opposing this weekend's gathering of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The small group of eight to nine protesters, members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., shouted, "you hate children," and "scat," along with other stronger language, at PFLAG conference attendees and anyone else crossing the street between the Little America and Grand America hotels between noon and 1 p.m. The protesters, some standing on American flags, waved brightly colored signs with slogans that read "God Hates Fags," "Thank God for Aids," "Thank God for Sept. 11," and "Death Penalty for Fags." They also sang America the Beautiful , changing the lyrics to disparage homosexuals. At one point Sunday, PFLAG member George Tarquinio confronted protesters by waving his arms above his head and begging for salvation. "Help me, help me, I want to repent," the Phoenix, Ariz. man said mockingly. At one point, a heated verbal exchange broke out briefly between a protester standing on the corner of Main St. and 500 South and a motorist who stopped to comment on her sign. Another man entering the Little America hotel greeted the protesters by holding up his middle finger. But the hour-long protest, though loud, was peaceful and mostly ignored by pedestrians. A Salt Lake City police officer kept an eye on the city-permitted protest from his parked patrol car about 20 feet away. PFLAG member Sue Null, of Houston, Texas, said the group actually helps the gay and lesbian cause. "It's unnerving," she said of the protest, "but the long-term effect is that they are so outrageous any thinking person wouldn't come out and support them."

Millie and Gary Watts

2004  Gays and God: Some churches are softening stands Slow progress: A panel at the PFLAG conference says the ecclesiastical communities are starting to become more accepting By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune Though they tried, Gary and Millie Watts, of Provo, couldn't continue to go to church after they learned their son and daughter were gay. The Mormon Church's position on homosexual relationships while two of their six children were gay was too much to bear. "When I would go to church, and they would sing or they would have a talk, Millie would cry," Gary Watts said. "I can't tell you how much we've gone through and how painful it was." For the Wattses, it was difficult to stay devoted to a religion that he said closes the door for gays and lesbians. Leaving was how they managed their relationship between religion and homosexuality. But there is change afoot, albeit small, among ecclesiastical communities in their view toward gay and lesbian issues, though more must be done, according to a panel of church leaders who spoke Sunday on the last day of the national conference of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity, a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Episcopalians and their straight friends, points to the confirmation of the Rev. Gene Robinson in New Hampshire as the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. "I'm utterly convinced that God loves everyone unconditionally," she said, adding there is a rising acceptance of gays and lesbians in the church. "I like to think that every inch we claim is an inch of hope," she added. Even the Unitarian Universalists, a more progressive church on world issues, once was not accepting of homosexuals, according to the Rev. Meg Riley, director of the church's Office for Advocacy and Witness. But it has since changed as cultural and social views of gays and lesbians evolved, she said. In a 1967 study, more than 7 percent of its members thought homosexuality should be discouraged by law while 80 percent felt it should be discouraged by education, she said. Then in 1972, the church opened the Office of Gay Concerns to help with gay and lesbian members, and now in 2004, more than a third of the congregation is actively involved in educating its members about homophobia. "It's not by magic that change happens," she said. Bob Rees, a former bishop with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles, said he became a supporter of homosexual acceptance in his church - even though he does not have a family member who is gay - after he started counseling gay and lesbian members who were being looked down on in his singles ward. "In the process, my heart became schooled in what it means to be treated as evil - a lot of heartbreak slowly came out," he said of the counseling sessions. For the Wattses, the experience has taught them that each family has a different way of handling how to balance their religious faith with the fact that a family member is gay. "Everybody's got to do it their way," Gary Watts said. "If you can do it [stay in the church], great." The Wattses have co-founded Family Fellowship, a Utah support group for Mormon families with gay or lesbian members. Gary Watts also serves on the national board of directors for PFLAG. Rees said he has experienced some backlash in the church over his open views for gays and lesbians. "I have had to deal with some ecclesiastical censure or disapproval," he said, though he is still active as a member of the High Priest Group leadership in his current ward. "But I feel one of our responsibilities as Latter-day Saints is to honestly try to do God's work, and that means helping to be the healer of shattered hearts."

Fiona Apple

2006 Fiona Apple Performing for Pride at the U of U Oct. 25!!! Fiona Apple October 25th Huntsman Center University of Utah 8:00 PM Presented by ASUU Presenter's Office and the LGBT Resource Center In Conjunction with PRIDE at the U of U. 

2010 Anti-gay bullying must stop, LDS Church agrees By

Scott Trotter

Rosemary Winters The Salt Lake Tribune  l Hartmann | Salt Lake Tribune Fiona Apple  spokesperson for the LDS Church, left, accepts a box of 150,000 signatures on a petition demanding that LDS apostle Boyd K. Packer "correct" his statements that being gay is "unnatural" and "impure" and can be overcome from Joe Solomese, center, President of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gays rights organization. The handoff took place in front of the LDS Church Office Building Tuesday

Joe Solmonese

morning October 12th. They don’t agree on Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer’s headline-grabbing sermon. They don’t agree on how people with same-sex attraction should live. And they certainly don’t agree on whether gay couples should marry. But the Human Rights Campaign and the Utah-based LDS Church do agree on this: Belittling, bullying, mocking or harming gays in any way is wrong and has to stop. On Tuesday, Joe Solmonese, president of HRC, a national gay-rights heavyweight, delivered a petition with 150,000 signatures to the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, urging The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to correct Packer’s statements that being gay is “impure and unnatural” and can be overcome. The effort is backed by the Utah Pride Center, Equality Utah and Affirmation, a support group for gay Mormons. Michael Otterson, managing director of public affairs for the

Michael Otterson

LDS Church, said the faith shares “common ground” with HRC in its desire to stop anti-gay bullying. “We have all witnessed tragic deaths across the country as a result of bullying or intimidation of gay young men,” Otterson said at a news conference, referring to a string of suicides the past month. “We join our voice with others in unreserved condemnation of acts of cruelty, or attempts to belittle or mock any group or individual that is different — whether those differences arise from race, religion, mental challenges, social status, sexual orientation or for any other reason.” Lori Davis, a Draper mom, said such statements help create a safe place for her pre-adolescent son within the LDS Church. She considers her son to be “gender nonconforming.” He likes to play with American Girl dolls and jewelry. He has expressed preferences for feminine things since he was 2. Whether he ends up being gay or straight, she wants him to know he is loved. “I was so impressed with [Otterson’s] statement. I just felt like the church was really providing some support, finally, for me and my family,” said Davis, who is active in the LDS faith but disagrees with many of its teachings on same-sex attraction. “When it really comes down to it, that’s the only thing we need — love and support.” Otterson encouraged LDS families and individuals to speak out against unkindness they witness toward people with same-sex attraction. Experiencing such attraction is not sinful under Mormon doctrine, he said, but it is a sin to act on those feelings. He reiterated the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage. “Our doctrinal position is clear: Any sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong, and we define marriage as between a man and a woman.” But HRC spokesman Michael Cole said Otterson’s comments failed to correct Packer’s “inaccurate and dangerous statements.”  “Science tells us that same-sex attraction is completely normal,” Cole wrote in an e-mail, “and that it can’t be changed.”  Last year, the American Psychological Association passed a resolution advising mental health professionals against telling clients they can change their sexual orientation through therapy or other treatments. No solid evidence exists that such efforts work, the APA concluded, and some studies suggest a potential for harm. The “long-standing consensus” of the behavioral and social sciences, the APA noted, is that homosexuality is a “normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation.” Last week, Packer edited his speech, delivered at the LDS Church’s 180th Semiannual General Conference, for online publication to more closely reflect the faith’s view that the cause of same-sex attraction is unknown and the only sin is acting on those desires. The changes didn’t satisfy Packer’s critics, but thousands of people have endorsed the senior apostle and his speech online. More than 24,000 have pledged on Facebook to write to Packer and share their support for his speech and his position as a “prophet, seer and revelator” for the LDS Church. The goal is to gather 100,000 letters. A

Valerie Larabee

separate, “I support Boyd K. Packer,” Facebook page has more than 13,000 backers. Valerie Larabee, executive director of the Utah Pride Center, said she is pleased that Otterson continued the “dialogue” between the LDS Church and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. But she still worries that teaching that same-sex behavior is sinful causes disruption in families. “There are still a lot of things unanswered about how families that have LGBT loved ones are having these conversations in their homes,” Larabee said. “To a young person [who] is seeking a safe place to talk about who they are, it would be a lot to hear that you can’t be all of who you are and still be with the rest of your family.” LGBT youths who experience high levels of family rejection are eight times more likely to attempt suicide, six times more likely to experience depression and three times more likely to use illegal drugs than those who don’t, according to a 2009 report in the medical journal Pediatrics. They also are more likely to run away or be expelled from home than non-LGBT youths. In Salt Lake City, 42 percent of homeless youths, ages 15 to 22, are LGBT, according to a survey last year at the Homeless Youth Resource Center. About 8 percent of Salt Lake City’s population is LGBT.

• The text of Human Rights Campaign’s letter to Boyd K. Packer "I’m appalled that you chose this moment to deliver a sermon saying same-sex attraction is unnatural and same-sex unions are immoral. You have risked further alienating LGBT youth and potentially contributing to suicides of even more vulnerable young people. You’ve told them that their very identities are ‘impure and unnatural,’ and you’ve incited the violence and bullying that often drives them to suicide by repeating lies disproven by both science and the experience of millions of Americans who know their LGBT neighbors and care about them. “I hope you will cease putting young people in real peril and acknowledge the scientific truth: Sexual orientation cannot be changed, nor should it be.” — Signed by HRC President Joe Solmonese and 150,000 others 
• Excerpt from LDS spokesman Michael Otterson “The church recognizes that those of its members who are attracted to others of the same sex experience deep emotional, social and physical feelings. ... Their struggle is our struggle. Those in the church who are attracted to someone of the same sex but stay faithful to the church’s teachings can be happy during this life and perform meaningful service in the church. They can enjoy full fellowship with other church members, including attending and serving in temples, and ultimately receive all the blessings afforded to those who live the commandments of God.”

Boyd K Packer

2010 Packer talk jibes with LDS stance after tweak By Peggy FLetcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune President Boyd K. Packer speaks at the Sunday morning session of the 180th Semiannual General Conference. Courtesy: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Senior Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer has modified his General Conference speech for the LDS Church’s online publication to more closely reflect the faith’s view that the cause of same-sex attraction is unknown and that the only sin is acting on those desires. Packer’s speech about gay marriage, same-sex attraction, pornography and addiction ignited a firestorm of critiques, conversations and protests, particularly the suggestion that gays could “overcome” their attractions with enough faith. Perhaps the most controversial paragraph in Packer’s text that he read Sunday said, “Some suppose that they were pre-set and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone? Remember he is our father.”  Now the word “temptations” has replaced “tendencies” and the question about God’s motives has been removed entirely. Packer, next in line for the LDS Church presidency, changed his wording as part of a routine practice after every General Conference, according to spokesman Scott Trotter, when speakers are given the opportunity to make “any edits necessary.” “President Packer has simply clarified his intent,” Trotter said Friday in a statement. While minor edits may be common, such substantive changes are rare. For instance, a general authority had to revise and retape a General Conference sermon he gave in 1984 that some saw as out of step with church teachings. In recent years, officials in the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have distinguished between same-sex attraction and gay relationships. “It’s no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression,” apostle Dallin H. Oaks said in an interview posted on

Dallin Oaks

the church’s website, lds.org. “The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.” On the question of inborn tendencies, Oaks said “the church does not have a position on the causes of any of these susceptibilities or inclinations, including those related to same-gender attraction.” Packer’s original speech seemed to combine attractions and actions so his changes were “more in line with where the church has been moving,” said John Lynch, chairman of the board of FAIR, a group of Mormon apologists. “My interpretation is that he’s removing the question of [same-sex attraction] from the realm of nature-versus-nurture,” said Lynch, a California Mormon whose older brother was among the first to die in the AIDS epidemic. “He’s saying, regardless of cause, people still have to contend with their desires.” Lynch applauded Packer’s statements about overcoming challenges. “One would hope that God would not put you in a position where you had no opportunity to align with his standards,” he said. “President Packer was extending a hand of hope, [saying] it’s not hopeless.”  Others were not so positive. Gary Watts, a former member of the LDS Church who has followed church statements about same-sex attraction, doesn’t see the edits as an improvement. “It leaves it out there like this is a temptation, like this is something one can choose,” said Watts, a Provo father of six grown children, including a gay son and a lesbian daughter. “They’re trying to edit it and soften it and make it better, but it’s not going to work. [The speech has] gone viral. Everyone knows what he said.” Packer and the church should have gone further in their subsequent statements, Watts argued. “It would be nice to have the church apologize and say they’re editing it because they’ve recognized that it’s caused a tremendous amount of hurt and discomfort,” he said. “I know many leaders of our church know that homosexuality is experienced honestly and involuntarily and is not amenable to significant change. I’m disappointed they don’t speak out.” Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, was even more forceful. “People across this country still need to hear from Elder Packer that he was wrong and that his statements were dangerous,” Solmonese said in a statement. “Trying to rewrite history is simply not good enough. Elder Packer and the church must immediately and fully correct the factual record. Sexual orientation and gender identity is an immutable characteristic of being human and, no matter how hard you pray, that won’t change.” Packer’s revised speech does eliminate the rhetorical question about why God would give people a condition beyond their capacity to cope — one the apostle says a loving Heavenly Father never would do.  That is a question that has engaged Christian thinkers for millennia. Rabbis even asked Jesus who caused a man to be blind, his parents or himself. Jesus answered, neither. The way Packer phrased the question was a “flash point among the membership, not only those paying close attention to issues of homosexuality and gay marriage,” said Rory Swensen, a Utah businessman and former board member of Sunstone, an issue-oriented Mormon magazine. “It rippled out in a way we haven’t seen before.” Swensen blogged about the question at timesandseasons.org. That was followed by a second thread about the question on the same site, soliciting dozens of responses. “It strikes at the heart of our belief about a personal God who is involved in our daily lives,” Swensen said. “There are really profound questions that remain to be answered.” One final change,besides some tightening, in the freshly edited speech is worth noting. In his original talk, Packer said the church’s 1995 statement, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” “qualifies according to scriptural definition as a revelation.” That descriptive phrase has now been omitted, leaving the proclamation simply described as “a guide that members of the church would do well to read and to follow.” That proclamation declared that “marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God” and that “gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose.”

• The major changes in Packer’s speech 
• Original: “The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World,’ the fifth proclamation in the history of the church. It qualifies according to scriptural definition as a revelation, a guide that members of the church would do well to read and to follow.”
• New: “The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World,’ the fifth proclamation in the history of the church. It is a guide that members of the church would do well to read and to follow.” 
• Original: “Some suppose that they were pre-set and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone? Remember he is our father.” 
• new: “Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn temptations toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Remember, God is our Heavenly Father.”