Clip: 2021 FAIR Conference: Agency and the Importance of Truth

In the summer fair 2021 conference, a paper was read which made the case that homosexual and other identities were abstract, and the result of cultural narratives and thus may be deconstructed.

What was interesting is that there was a remarkable moment in the presentation where the author explained, beautifully and inadvertently, why many who leave the church, consider it important to examine the truthfulness of the claims of the church and its leaders.

Because the truthfulness of the church narrative is the point upon which our own story hinges. Are we agents making legitimate choices with a reasonable understanding of the world as it exists, or are we subjects robbed of our agency in a delusion built on a false narrative? It all depends on whether or not the inputs to our decisions are actually based on the true objective real world.

So in trying to discredit homosexual identity by raising doubt as to whether or not such a category exists in any objective way - he actually inadvertently provides people with the justification needed to examine the nature of the church itself.

Listen for yourself. See what you think.

The original author is Ed Gantt, his co-author and colleague Richard Williams is reading.

Source: FAIR Conference Podcast #65 – Edwin E. Gantt, “Agentic Sexuality: How a Latter-day Saint Perspective Can Rescue Humanity from the Tyranny of the Abstract”

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2021/11/09/fair-conference-podcast-65-edwin-e-gantt-agentic-sexuality-how-a-latter-day-saint-perspective-can-rescue-humanity-from-the-tyranny-of-the-abstract