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LDS rock star wants to be voice of change from inside Mormon church

by Heidi Hatch, Ryan Painter

Saturday, January 27th 2018

PARK CITY, Utah — (KUTV) The frontman of massively popular world-wide band Imagine Dragons is straight, married, Mormon, served a two-year Mormon mission, is a father of three and is ready to be the voice of change for his religion from the inside. 

Dan Reynolds wants to stop the tide of teen suicide. He is a key subject of the documentary, “Believer” directed by Don Argott, that is an attempt to give the voice to the voiceless and put a face to the faceless.

“The only way people are ever going to understand what is at stake is to hear people’s real stories,” Argott said in an interview with KUTV, sitting aside Reynolds.

The film is ending its run as part of the Sundance Film Festival this weekend and is destined to air on HBO. Part of the documentary takes place inside the Encircle: LGBTQ Family and Youth Resource Center in Provo, Utah, that opened a new location in Salt Lake City Friday.

“You would sit down with the kids and the heartbreak and conflict was just devastating,” Reynolds said. “I wished every single Mormon could have walked through that house and talked to those kids.”

KUTV film critic Ryan Painter previously reviewed the film. Watch the video above to see the full report from Heidi Hatch.

It is commendable that Reynolds wants to defend the dignity of teenagers in the LGBTQ community, but the most effective way to do that is to abandon Mormonism altogether and attempt to destroy totally the political influence of that religious movement. Then work to dismantle bit by bit the cult itself. It simply shouldn’t exist. Its false and irrational dogmas must be totally debunked from top to bottom, replaced by objective truth.

The homophobia of Mormonism is bad enough. What about the blatant racism in the Book of Mormon itself? Will Reynolds address that too? Discrimination is discrimination and bigotry is bigotry. We should stand up against ALL of it and tolerate NONE of it, even if it comes from religion.

There is an obvious alternative for LGBTQ members who were raised Mormon. They can leave it and join Unitarian Universalism. They can add their stories to the many others here: Ex-Mormons. They can go here and learn about others who have done the same:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/

I really do not understand people who insist on staying within a religion like that. Even mainstream Christianity is preferable to Mormonism, no?