100 years ago today - May 9, 1913

First Presidency learns that James Dwyer, co-founder of Salt Lake City's LDS University (now LDS Business College), has been "teaching young men that sodomy and kindred vices are not sins..." Dwyer's daughter, actress Ada Dwyer Russell, is already in long-term relationship with lesbian poet Amy Lowell. Dwyer's bishop and stake president want to excommunicate him, but First Presidency allows Dwyer, now in his eighties, to voluntarily "withdraw his name" from LDS church membership.

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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  1. AnonymousMay 09, 2013

    [Original Source: DMQ, MH:EP, p.814]

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