Sister Dottie vs. The Mormon Church
From
May 1-17, Dottie Dixon, a game-changer of the highest order, takes the
stage nightly at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake
City in her one-woman show, The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon, which chronicles her experiences as the activist Mormon mother of a gay son.
Sister Dottie, who lives with her husband of 38 years, Don, on what
she describes as "a lovely little cul de sac" in Spanish Fork, Utah,
about ten miles south of "the BYU," approaches the Mormon church's
anti-gay positions from the unassailable mountaintop of a mother who
loves her child. And she comes at it from the inside, as a
tenth-generation Mormon whose great-great grandfather, Heber Orson
Maxwell O'Donovan, migrated to Utah, across the plains as a Mormon
pioneer in 1847 with none other than Brigham Young himself, the second
prophet, seer, and revelator of the Mormon Church.
Her show, a comedy with what she describes as "moments of
poignancy," addresses the controversy of Sister Dottie's stubborn
refusal to accept the Mormon church's anti-gay positions. "I can't
choose between my church and my child," she said last week when I spoke
to her on the phone between rehearsals for her show. "My church wants
me to choose. I don't do that."
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