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Contents:

• CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAYSTORI AND ROURC FOR THE LGBTQIA+ LATTER-DAY SAT COMMUNY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY MORMONS
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE

CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE

This approach appears to be creatg a siar two-tier system of membership that pertas to lbian and gay Sats: You are wele to attend, and we regnize that you’re God’s children, but if you want to enjoy the blsgs of the temple and of full ward participatn, you are not wele any way to act on your inty. Church reversed s gay marriage stanceOn Thursday, the LDS church announced had moved at light speed (four years their se) and reversed a 2015 policy that said children livg wh their gay parents uld not be baptized until their 18th birthday, and that classifi people same-sex marriag as "apostat.

You n bet provoked quieter but jt as termed phback om members of the church who have gay fay ’s no accint that this policy shift arriv wh new learship at the head of the church. 2015 policy seemed like an aberratnBut gog back four years when the church was cricized for s then-new policy on the children of gay parents and baptism, seemed an aberratn  the arc of the church's evolutn on LGBTQ issu.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

Up until that time lears and members of the church had been reachg out to the gay muny to create greater unrstandg. Mormon lawmakers were stmental workg wh gays to pass laws 2015  the Utah Legislature to protect LGBTQ rights employment and hog. LDS msage: Treat all wh kdnsYou began to hear this the admonn of LDS general thori, who told their members that regard to homosexualy, they are to treat all people wh kdns and 2017, Utah beme one of the first Republin-domated stat to abolish a law that forbids teachers om addrsg topics related to homosexualy schools.

The LGBTQ muny blam on the church’s prohibns on homosexualy, but the rearch is only begng and will probably take years before we have clear answers. I told them that when you work among gay people your entire reer and unrstand what good and cent and people they are, you n no longer hold the views you once held your youth – views shaped by scripture and Sunday school and sacrament meetg.

I've told lots of gay journalists about this discsn.

GAYSTORI AND ROURC FOR THE LGBTQIA+ LATTER-DAY SAT COMMUNY

I've said that the road to acceptance of gay marriage is much longer for vout Mormons and Evangelil Christians than is for liberal Democrats who are gay.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

"You have to unrstand, " I told one gay journalist. "I grew up a church which we were tght homosexualy is an abomatn the ey of the Lord.

But Print Oaks ma clear that the Church was not revisg s doctre on homosexualy, which teach that havg same-sex attractn is not a s, but actg on is.

Openly gay, bisexual and transgenr men nnot be ordaed the LDS Church. Mormons Buildg Bridg is a muny of Latter-day Sats dited to nveyg love and acceptance to all those who intify as LGBTQI and those who experience same-sex attractn or genr Fay Fellowship is a service and support group for Mormons wh gay and lbian fay members. It holds that “gay and lbian Mormons n be great blsgs the liv of their fai, and that fai n be great blsgs the liv of their gay and lbian members.

GAY MORMONS

ImageYoung Adults Together Church: Mormon and Gay Webse. In the first few months after beg lled as a bishop, I was surprised when three sets of parents my ward each approached me private to let me know that they had a child who intified as gay or transgenr. As a new bishop, was dntg to reach out to a member of my ward who intified as gay and need spirual help.

A Gospel Topics say explas: “The Church distguish between same-sex attractn and homosexual behavr.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

People who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual n make and keep venants wh God and fully and worthily participate the Church. Intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple.

Be reful not to lim members’ opportuni to ntribute if they intify as gay or transgenr. " Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized. " The church said that "immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual relatnships will be treated the same way.

CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE

" "[If] homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we're not treatg 'immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way, ' " as one person noted on Twter. The PoX got majorly walked back — which is FANTASTIC — although I’ll pot out that if homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we’re not treatg “immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way” — jaclyn (@j_n_foster) April 4, 2019.

" wrote Calv Burke, who is gay and a stunt at Brigham Young Universy, which is operated by the LDS church. I believe & look forward to more wonrful surpris the futureI know there will e a pot my life when I will stand wh my fellow Sats & be able to say that I have not been nied any blsgs now or Eterny bee I am gay. This ment, and many others like , is clud an updated versn of "Mormon and Gay, ” an official webse om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.

The first versn of this webse lnched December 2012 unr the tle "Mormons and Gays. " The new appellatn, "Mormon and Gay, " reflects the realy that a person don’t need to choose between the two inti — one n, fact, be gay and live fahful to the teachgs of Christ.