Jul 9, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Love, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, The scriptures say that to be carnally minded is death, while to be spiritually minded is life eternal. How does this apply to intimacy in marriage? How can one engage in physical intimacy with one’s own spouse without having carnal thoughts and...
Apr 26, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sexual Issues, Worthiness
Question Dear Gramps, Is looking at pornography breaking the Law of Chastity? Jon Answer Dear Jon, Pornography has become one of the most serious problems in our society and among many members of the Church and it continues to get worse. It is destroying...
Apr 2, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Repentance, Sexual Issues, Worthiness
Dear Gramps, A few years after I was baptized I started to be immoral with my boyfriend. I talked to the bishop after the first time it happened but I continued bad behavior with different boyfriends all the while still being “active” i didn’t think I needed to go to...
Mar 11, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Addictions, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Health, Mormon Doctrine, Word of Wisdom
Dear Gramps, I was helping my dad bring in some new green tea into the house and he said I could have a case of it. I said “sorry I won’t drink it.” He just looked on and said, “Why not?” I said, “Its against the Word of Wisdom.” We got into a big discusion and he in...
Mar 10, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Love, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, Thanks for your columns! I am 52 and divorced. My ex-husband and I still love each other, but I am active again and won’t have sex with him. He tries to manipulate me into it, and then argues, threatens me with needing to go to other women, etc. What...
Feb 27, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, Lately I’ve been unsure about something regarding sin. If you’ve committed a lets say sexual sin by viewing pornography and eventually masturbating, is that a serious enough sin to have to speak with your Bishop/Stake President? Or would it be okay to...
Feb 12, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, I want to know something about mormons. What do mormons do when they have children that have a handicapt. Because when incest is commited you would expect most of theese children would have some sort of handicapt? Shifanya Dear Shifanya, People with...
Jan 19, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, How I wish that I really had a sage grandfather who would answer this question with a personal feeling attached, witnessing the anguish and sorrow caused by his granddaughter’s husband. We hear many talks in Sacrament and in General Conference about what...
Jan 15, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Self Worth, Sexual Issues
Gramps, Hi! I am writing because my fiance has a problem and I want to help him with it. In his teen years, he had a homosexual encounter (not sexual) and it left quite a mark on him. He repented, but he revealed to me that once in a great while the thought comes in...
May 24, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce, God, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine
Gramps, I shared your answer to the question of divorce with a friend of mine who believes that God’s law forbids divorce. He answered this way “I believe the context says that “putting away” and “divorce” are the same thing because it goes on to say that there is a...