LDS Air Force Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich is featured on the cover of TIME Magazine with the headline, "I Am a Homosexual: The Gay Drive for Acceptance.- The accompanying article makes no mention of Matlovich's Mormonism. Two months later Matlovich is excommunicated. Matlovich served three tours of duty in Vietnam where he received the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Force Meritorious Service Medal. Sgt Matlovich was discharged from the army for coming out. He sued and settled for $160,000. He became a gay-rights activist and died, from complications due to AIDS, on Jun 22, 1988. The epitaph carved in his tombstone in the District of Columbia-s Congressional Cemetery reads -When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.-
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
lust is not love.
ReplyDeleteRomans 1:
ReplyDelete[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the LUSTS of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their LUST one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
James 1:
[14] But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own LUST, and enticed.
[15] Then when LUST hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.