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.'
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CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
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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. 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. In 2021, after several high-profile cints at BYU — cludg a valedictorian g his graduatn speech to pronounce that he was “proud to be a gay son of God” and dozens of stunts lightg the school’s famo mountasi Y wh rabow lors — popular apostle Jefey Holland chastised BYU faculty members for “supportg ias that many of feel are ntradictory to gospel prcipl.
Conveng a rare prs nference on Tuday at church headquarters Salt Lake Cy, Mormon lears pledged to support anti-discrimatn laws for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people, as long the laws also protect the rights of relig groups.
AffirmatnAs members and iends of the gay and lbian muny, is our tentn to work for the unrstandg and acceptance of gays and lbians as full, equal and worthy persons wh the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and society, and to help them realize and affirm Acceptance Project - Fay Edutn Materials to Help Mormon Fai Support LGBT ChildrenAs wh other fay tn booklets om the Fay Acceptance Project, Supportive Fai, Healthy Children has been signated as the 1st “Bt Practice” rource for suici preventn for LGBT people by the natnal Bt Practic Registry for Suici Preventn and is the only such rource for Latter-day Sat (Mormon) fai. But we are mted to facilatg meangful, lovg, and productive dialogue wh our Heavenly Parents’ LGBTQ+ and GayOfficial church webse lnched 10/25/ Fay FellowshipSupportg fai wh LGBTQ+ members and Futur UtahLoted the heart of downtown Ogn.
is an official webse om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. The se’s purpose is to help everyone better unrstand same-sex attractn om a gospel perspective. * mormon church lgbt *
It Gets BetterThe It Gets Better Project’s missn is to munite to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth around the world that gets better, and to create and spire the chang need to make better for Affirmative Psychotherapist Guild of UtahThe Guild is a Utah-based, grassroots anizatn of licensed mental-health profsnals and stunts--trag. Ung people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) wh fai, iends, and alli, PFLAG is mted to advancg equaly and full societal affirmatn of LGBTQ people through s threefold missn of support, tn, and advocy. Before examg why the church believ that beg a homosexual who is naturally and stctively attracted to those of the same sex is not sful, but exprsg homosexual feelgs and sir is a s – even wh lawful, monogamo marriage – is helpful to first unrstand the origatn of the church’s posn and how has changed over time.
Also this perd, LGBT people began to assert their rights to live their liv thentilly and whout persecutn, mastream media started givg more favorable verage of homosexuals, and societal views ever so slightly began to shift. ” As one LDS historian explaed, “[This chapter] is the earlit and most prehensive treatment on homosexualy by an apostle, and the foundatn om which Mormon thought, policy and polil actn on homosexualy grew for the past 45 years. This belief rmed the church’s eccliastil approach and trag of lears, as well as Mormon mental-health therapists, for years to e – and was probably the most psychologilly and spirually damagg of all the church’s teachgs on homosexualy.
Almost all gay Mormons, particularly those over the age of 30, have gone through tense perds of fastg, prayer and hyper-religsy, pleadg wh God to change this fundamental aspect of their re nature, only to fall to spair and self-recrimatn when the promised change never me.