On the Mormon Church & organized religion | Dustin Lance Black
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Excerpt from Q&A with oscar-winning screenwriter of “Milk” and “J. Edgar”, and LGBT rights campaigner, Dustin Lance Black at University College Dublin where he received Honorary Life Membership of the UCD Law Society.
Black is a co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) which was pivotal in the abolition of Proposition 8 in California.
He was awarded the honour at University College Dublin in recognition of his storytelling achievements and his active campaigning for LGBT rights.
"It was an incredible honour to welcome Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley to the UCD Law Society. Lance has been a leading advocate for same-sex marriage and equality in the United States over the last decade. His screenwriting works promote the right to equality that millions of LGBT men and women dream of achieving," said Ian Fahey, Auditor of the UCD Law Society, University College Dublin.
“This award recognises his pioneering and inspiring campaigning for equal rights for all minority groups."
In his acceptance address at University College Dublin, Black explained how “story” is the most effective way to change hearts and minds. He continued to tell his own story and how he got to this place.
In the inspiring and personal story that followed, Black, who grew up in Texas in the beliefs of the Mormon Church, described how he first told his mom he was gay and her earliest reaction to this.
“Loud and clear, what I heard in that silence was that it wasn’t OK,” he said. “That she was afraid for her son. What had she done wrong to break her precious boy and how could she fix this horrible problem.
That’s what that silence said, because that’s what she’d learned, all of those years growing up the way she did.”
Black’s boyfriend, British Diving Champion, Tom Daley attended the award event at University College Dublin.
Previous recipients of the UCD Law Society Honorary Life Membership Award include: Martin Sheen, Patrick J. Adams, and Judge Judy.
You don’t have to be apart of an organized religion to have a relationship with God. In some cases people idolize religion. The most important thing is a relationship with God if you want to have one. I’m glad Dustin and people in general see that and don’t abandon their relationship with God over people who fall short. Leaving a church where you see that people are doing things that God wouldn’t and doesn’t approve of is hard but it’s necessary! Dustin is doing an amazing job with trying to help this church be more Christ centered.
Same, ever since I saw how my religion treated women it's better for me not to be involved in organized religion. My relationship with God is only between me and God.
He's so handsome omg
What were they laughing about at the start?