“I cannot comprehend our Father in Heaven endowing certain of his children with the unique characteristics of a gay person, [and] then rejecting them … There are things about which I do feel guilt, but I feel no guilt for being a gay man. I feel no guilt for sharing my life with my partner.”

Richard and Joan Ostling, Mormon America “Affirmation (Mormon Gay and Lesbian Organization)”, (San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1999), 368.