My Response to the so-called "Frozen Gay Agenda" as posted by "A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman"

To clarify for those of you reading this for the first time, a popular blogger posted about the movie Frozen, trying to say that it was "pushing the gay agenda." I wrote this in response.

If you agree with the statements contained here, whether LDS or not, please share this-we need to let the world know that we are not paranoid homophobics, but followers of Christ.

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For your information: The bolded comments starting with A Kingdom of isolation are the parts of the song Let it Go that this individual felt were promoting the gay agenda, and my response to them.

I've read your entire blog post, and I completely disagree. As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, pursuing a Masters Degree in Divinity, currently a Chaplain Candidate in the United States Army, I couldn't disagree more in fact. After watching Frozen I felt that it teaches not only Christian Values, but LDS Values specifically. In fact, I've already framed a fireside that could be between 1 and 2 hours based entirely on the song "Let it Go" allow me to respond to the italics that you have chosen to focus on in your attack on this song that has so much potential for teaching our youth.

A kingdom of isolation: Most if not all individuals will feel this way throughout their lives. Having conducted extensive work with youth both inside and outside of the church, this is especially the case among that group. Satan's plan is to try and isolate us, divide and conquer is his goal.

And it looks like, I'm the queen: We are all royalty. We have a royal birthright. Whether Kings or Queens, we are all royals in embryo.

Couldn't keep it in, Heaven knows I've tried: One of the strongest messages that the LDS culture (NOT THE RELIGION, THE CULTURE) teaches is we have to be perfect. Weaknesses are bad, and we need to hide them. I'll go into this again later as this theme is repeated in the song. The point is, many people struggle with keeping in their trials and struggles. They try and emulate what they think others want them to see. They are holding back on their potential, because they're afraid to show how they really feel.

Be the good girl you always have to be, conceal don't feel don't let them know: This is an outcry that many of the youth are silently screaming right now. "Be perfect, don't show your weakness, don't talk about the things that you are struggling with." I teach seminary, and I know that this is true. This is one of Satan's great lies, that you have to do it on your own, and you have to be perfect. This is the same struggle that the main character in Frozen has been struggling with. She has been taught that she needs to present a certain face to the world, and it's not who she is. It's time to be herself.

Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back any more: I can sum this up in one simple phrase: cast your burden upon the Lord. Stop carrying this terrible load that you've been carrying for possibly years. You don't have to carry it by yourself. Let. It. Go. This can also be related to forgiveness. You don't need to be burdened anymore. In context with the song, Be Yourself. Don't hide it any longer.

I don't care what they're going to say: Good. The only person you should care about impressing is Heavenly Father. This was my exact response when I found out that the Gospel was true. I bore my testimony to my parents, and immediately thereafter we began fighting, eventually this culminated in them kicking me out of their house because of my belief in the LDS Church. I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY! Let's scream it LOUD! Joseph Smith didn't either, and I'm thankful for that.

The fears that once controlled me: Fear is in opposition to faith, but many people fear what they don't know and don't understand. (As an aside, I feel that your entire paranoid blog post is a clear representation of your fear of homosexuality, but that's beside the point.) Everyone experiences fear, it doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has been controlled by fear at one point or another, it's time to LET IT GO. Let go of that fear.

It's time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through: What an awesome liberating principle of the Gospel. Let's see what we're capable of!

No right no wrong no rules for me, I'm free: When you've been living the commandments because you have to, because they've been forced upon you, they feel constricting and controlling. You begin to feel held down and held back by them, rather than liberated by them. You'll notice that she does continue to live by rules and standards throughout the rest of the movie, the difference is, she's now living them because it's her choice, because she has gained a testimony of them. There is a right and a wrong, but she wants to live them, she's not doing it because her overbearing parents have forced them upon her.

Here I stand and here I'll stay Let the storm rage on: STAND YE IN HOLY PLACES AND BE NOT MOVED

The Past is in the Past: Another wonderful gospel message. I've repented, it's time to move on. Let's not focus on the past.

I'll Rise like the break of dawn: Yes you will. As you embrace the Gospel you can't HELP but rise like the break of dawn. Christ lifts us from the dark, and brings us into the light.

The perfect girl is gone: Or at least the facade of the perfect girl or perfect boy. It's time to break down that wall, and embrace the wonderful, imperfect you. Ether teaches us, God gave men weakness that they may be humble, and His grace is sufficient for those that rely on Him... let's embrace the imperfect you, and rely on God to make up the rest

Here I stand in the light of day: No longer am I hiding in the dark, I'm in the Light, and I'm in the Light because He is in the Light, and has brought me out of the dark.

The cold never bothered me anyway: all of those things that I thought were huge issues that kept me from running the Savior, they were nothing. This is everything. I can recognize now that those were small, and His love and His infinite atonement has allowed me to conquer all.

Now this has taken me about fifteen minutes to compose. Your response to Frozen does nothing more than further establish a divide between the LDS Culture and the LDS Religion. Jesus Christ taught principles of love, compassion, and forgiveness, not bigotry, hatred, and paranoia. This posting does far more harm than good. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints it is imperative that we love as the Savior loved, and embrace good media, such as Frozen, for what it is-not try and look into it as something that it isn't, and was never meant to be.

To see the original posting you can visit: http://wellbehavedmormonwoman.blogspot.com/2014/02/movie-frozen-gay-homosexual-agenda.html#comment-form

If you agree with the statements contained here, whether LDS or not, please share this-we need to let the world know that we are not paranoid homophobics, but followers of Christ.