Mormon and Gay: How It's Gog - Chapter Z Magaze

Contents:

• MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH
• GAY AREA MARMON (NEW MEXI)
• RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• MORMON AND GAY: HOW IT’S GOG
• CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
• NEW MORMON AND GAY WEBSE FEATUR SERI OF VIOS OM LDS CHURCH MEMBERS
• MEN ON A MISSN: MORMON BOYS EXPOSED...(AS GAY)
• GAY MORMONS
• CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
• EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR
• NEW MORMON AND GAY WEBSE FEATUR SERI OF VIOS OM LDS CHURCH MEMBERS
• AM I GAY?
• GAY ROSELLA (MARMON) WELCH

MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH

Mormon and gay: Church says you n be both. LDS Church has lnched a new sectn of s official webse, tled "Mormon and Gay".

GAY AREA MARMON (NEW MEXI)

Self-intified gay Mormon: The church's shift on this issue is "monumental".

RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

As a creative director for church public affairs, Rosas was asked to help sign the church’s latt mpaign: a new sectn of s official webse tled “Mormon and Gay.

As the office’s attentn fixed upon homosexualy, Rosas sctized himself. Now he and his wife Elizabeth are featured promently on “Mormon and Gay, ” discsg how they have grown together as the new materials gave them the tools for “a healthy dialogue.

No issue the last has divid church as eply as homosexualy.

MORMON AND GAY: HOW IT’S GOG

As public opn – and scientific unrstandg – on sexualy has shifted wh remarkable speed, many nomatns, cludg Mormon lears, have had to grapple wh a difficult qutn: How do they mata tradnal doctre that homosexual acts are sful, while acceptg and misterg to gay and lbian Mormons who scerely wish to rema part of their church? Unveiled on Tuday, “Mormon and Gay” is one answer to that qutn. The web page featur vio msag and says om five church members, cludg Rosas, who intify as same-sex attracted, gay, lbian or bisexual.

CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE

Senr church lears ll the new materials “simply an update” om the webpage “Mormons and Gays, ” released 2012 on a doma unaffiliated wh the church’s official webse.

(“Mormons and Gays” now redirects to the new “Mormons and Gay” page. Mch Mayne, a proment gay Mormon and blogger, said, “Above and beyond gettg to the ntent of the webse, the URL is absolutely fantastic – ’s an clive statement.

NEW MORMON AND GAY WEBSE FEATUR SERI OF VIOS OM LDS CHURCH MEMBERS

While the prev se promently displayed the church’s doctral stance agast homosexual activy on s homepage, the new materials feature the stori of gay members.

“Church Teachgs” is loted on a separate page; roughly 1, 700 words and five vios on “lovg one another” prece the first direct statement that “homosexual activy is a s. Fulmer, who self-intifi as a gay Mormon and is featured on the new webse, said the new materials “give a steppg stone to have more open munitn about this and to te others on how to help and how to rpond to somebody who is gay.

MEN ON A MISSN: MORMON BOYS EXPOSED...(AS GAY)

Trevor Johnson, a gay man who was raised Mormon but rigned his membership after gettg engaged, said, “When I first me out, the most damagg thg was feelg like people didn’t believe me that I was attracted to men.

GAY MORMONS

I appreciate that the church is releasg materials that validate the realy of the homosexual experience.

Keetch both say they have bee more ted on homosexualy through their volvement producg the materials — a two-year procs which volved the church learship, LGBT advocy groups and mental health profsnals.

CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE

Soon, Searle began to date gay men. But his experience as a fahful gay Mormon hasn’t been easy. “I wish there was ntent on how to be a celibate gay man an emotnally healthy way.

While the church once regard homosexualy as “curable” and enuraged members to be “forced” to heterosexual marriag, the church has backed off of this remendatn.

“Mormon and Gay” leav the qutn of future relatnships for Fulmer and Searle open-end, sayg they don’t know what the future holds. In a church found on the ncept of ntual revelatn, many members qutn what those “future updat” uld be — cludg whether the church will revoke s ntroversial policy on the children of gay parents. Mormon evolutn on homosexualy.

EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR

Prr to 1950Homosexualy regard by church as “s that dare not speak s name” 1952“Homosexualy” is ed publicly by a senr church lear for the first time, lled an “abomatn” parable to masturbatn and btialy1969Homosexualy regard as “curable” by a senr church lear; beg “forced” to heterosexual relatnships is enuraged 1976Church-sponsored Brigham Young Universy nducts electroshock therapy for 14 gay Mormons1978-81Church fac public backlash for opposg Equal Rights Amendment, argug uld extend legal protectn to “lbian and homosexual marriag” 1990sLears beg referrg to homosexualy as same-genr attractn, acknowledgg the realy of sexual attractn while nmng the s of actg on those feelgs 2008-09Church attempts to balance “relig liberty and nondiscrimatn” polil advocy, mpaigng agast legalizatn of gay marriage California and supportg a nondiscrimatn ordance Salt Lake Cy2012Church “gay” for the first time public munitns. In a seri of vios on “Mormons and Gays, ” lears ask members to “fd mon ground” while “beg te to relig beliefs”2015“Handbook of Instctn” for church lears is updated wh a new policy barrg children of same-sex upl om church baby blsgs and baptism. Same-sex marriage is regard as apostasy and grounds for exmunitn2016Church lnch new “Mormon and Gay” sectn on s official webse, which Mormon lears ll for creased dialogue about homosexualy, and gay Mormons share their experienc as active, celibate church members.

NEW MORMON AND GAY WEBSE FEATUR SERI OF VIOS OM LDS CHURCH MEMBERS

Christofferson, who has a gay brother, also led the creatn of the “Mormon and Gay” webse, acrdg to a church spokman.

AM I GAY?

But none of the top church lears ordaed to the hight level of the prithood have mented on the new materials, somethg Mayne said is ditive of a wars towards a perceived “gay agenda” at the hight levels of the church. Mayne said lears “thk gay marriage is an act of fiance, but this uldn’t be farther om the tth. He hop the church’s top learship will speak wh homosexual married upl to unrstand that “a gay uple is really two Mormon people hopg to e as close as possible to everythg that we value and hold ar as a relign: fai, mted relatnships, lovg one another.

In 2012, the “Mormons and Gays” was released whout fanfare, leavg members to doubt that the church was rponsible for s creatn.

Though the top prithood lears did not mentn homosexualy, Facebook ers quickly terpreted their msag through this lens.

GAY ROSELLA (MARMON) WELCH

” Marks intifi on his Facebook page as both gay and Mormon. This exchange reveals the pable tensn faced by a church attemptg to both nmn same-sex marriage and clu gay members — all while navigatg a ti of creasgly antagonistic public opn.