Perry Ekimae

Tyler Perry Are You Not Entertained? I am going to say something that will probably make some of my gay friends very unhappy with me. I love Ender’s Game .   Hands down, my favorite novel of all-time.   In so many ways, it defined my adolescence.   I felt such a connection to the struggle of Ender Wiggin as a kid who just did not quite fit in at home or at school.   I better understand the reasons why I struggled with those connections now, but that book gave me a sense of belonging and shared experience that I could hardly find anywhere else. Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game , tends to slip Mormon cosmology into his writing.   He literally wrote a series that is little more than a sci-fi retelling of the Book of Mormon.   He also participated in the writing of the script for my favorite original Xbox game, Advent Rising .   You have probably never heard of Advent Rising , as it was not terribly popular, it was super buggy, and it had...

Tyler Perry The short answer to the question in the title is: no. However, I think that there are some things that are worth looking at and discussing.   Overall, this is some of the most sex positive writings I have seen from the church, but there is still a lot of work to be done in rooting out the harms of purity culture and the lack of queer affirmation. Before getting into that, I want to reference a scripture that is often at the front of my mind when discussing sex and sexuality with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.   This is a scripture that defined much of my negative attitudes toward sex, masturbation, and my own gay identity for many years. In Alma 39, the prophet Alma, having just given counsel to his two faithful sons, has a longer conversation with his more rebellious son, Corianton.   Corianton had, during his time as a missionary, gone a little too “missionary” on a woman described as “the harlot, Isabel”.   Isabel w...