Mormon lears do not speak of a gay or lbian sexual orientatn, though they now fully acknowledge that many people 'stggle wh same-genr attractn.'
Contents:
‘MORMONISM’S SRLET LETTER’? IT’S A MARK ON THEIR MEMBERSHIP THAT FOLLOWS SOME GAY LATTER-DAY SATS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIV.(TRENT NELSON | THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE) ZACHARY IBARRA, PHOTOGRAPHED PROVO ON THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 2018. IBARRA WAS TOLD HE WOULD HAVE TO WA THREE YEARS TO SERVE A MISSN AFTER NFSG HE KISSED A BOY.BY PEGGY FLETCHER STACK | NOV. 30, 2018, 2:40 P.M. | UPDATED: 10:27 P.M.FROM BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSY’S HONOR CO TO MISSN REQUIREMENTS TO CHURCH DISCIPLE, LGBTQ AND STRAIGHT LATTER-DAY SATS FACE UNEQUAL TREATMENT.IN EVERY SE, CHURCH-IMPOSED PENALTI ARE STIFFER FOR THE FORMER THAN THE LATTER.ANY PUBLIC SIGN OF AFFECTN ON BYU’S MP BETWEEN TWO MEN OR TWO WOMEN — A SCTIVE PECK ON THE CHEEK OR STROLLG HAND HAND — ULD RULT EXPULSN.KISSG ANOTHER MAN ULD ST A GAY MISSNARY APPLINT A THREE-YEAR LAY — OR THE CHANCE TO SERVE AT ALL.AND SEXUAL RELATNS BETWEEN NSENTG GAY ADULTS ULD PROMPT DISFELLOWSHIPMENT OR EXMUNITN — AS WELL AS A RED FLAG ON THEIR MEMBERSHIP RERDS THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SATS.THE ANNOTATN STCTS LOL LAY LEARS WHO SEE THE MEMBERSHIP RERDS TO LL CHURCH HEADQUARTERS SALT LAKE CY.MANY OF THE LOL LEARS ALSO HAVE TERPRETED THIS NOTE ON A MEMBERSHIP DOCUMENT AS A REASON TO BAN GAYS OM TERACTNS WH CHILDREN OR TEENS — AS IF THEY WERE PEDOPHIL — EVEN THOUGH THE FLAGGED ACTIVY WAS NSENSUAL AND WH ADULTS.THIS MARK ULD FOLLOW MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIV. THK OF AS A KD OF LATTER-DAY SAT SEX-OFFENR REGISTRY — WHOUT ANY ILLEGAL OFFENDG.HOW DID HOMOSEXUAL SEX AND PEDOPHILIA BEE SO LKED?IN A WORD, HISTORY.‘STANDARD PRACTICE’
Jt two years ago, the church received much public praise for rcdg a 2015 policy, ntroversial among Mormons at the time, that clared the mor children of gay people uld not be baptized to or jo the church as members—at least not until they were 18 years old, and only then if they would nounce their parents’ marriage and nmn their sexualy. Mormonism is now facg a world which not only the majory of outsirs, but also a signifint portn of their own membership—cludg s own universy’s faculty—seem to regnize that doctre for what is: a list of proposns phrased as irrefutable tths, issued by a group of men who grew up wh homophobia suffg every stutn their liv.