“Everything I touched became a sin,” he despairs. The main character, a gay man serving a mission, reads Miracle of Forgiveness again and again, trying to become straight and filling himself with self-loathing. “When you’re told from the age of 8 that you’re criminal, you’re wrong in God’s eyes, that breaks your spirit.” The title of Johnny Townsend’s interlinked autobiographical short story collection is the Abominable Gayman,a reference to one of Miracle’s odder theories that Bigfoot is Cain lingering on earth. Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black recalls hearing the message repeated in church. The book was a best-seller in Mormon circles. “I wished I hadn’t been created after reading it,” says a post on Reddit. Miracle of Forgiveness defines homosexuality as not just degeneracy and pathology, but a contagion leading to the deterioration of society. “We turn that pain into healing,” he said, announcing an exhibit and black-tie gala now scheduled for April 23. In this transformation, condemnation becomes celebration.Įvery Thursday throughout 2021, Kyle Ashworth of Latter Gay Stories and a volunteer army scoured Deseret Industries and other thrift stores to clear the shelves of copies of “a book that has caused immeasurable harm.” In December, Ashworth announced he was making 6,000 copies of this book available to be made into art.
Kimball’s 1969 book, Miracle of Forgiveness, which drove a generation of gay Mormons to suicide, inauthentic marriages, and other forms of despair. Instead of transforming physical weapons, artists are transforming copies of a book that drained people’s lives away: Spencer W. Something similar is underway in Salt Lake City. Thousands of weapons were cut up and soldered into a harrowing image of hope. Citizens could exchange something deadly for ploughs, bicycles, and sewing machines. It’s a sculpture by four artists from Mozambique in a country moving away from war and exploitation. Inside the British Museum, there’s a tree made of guns and grenade launchers.
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