(RNS) — Mormons have broaned their support for LGBTQ rights three key areas, though they still lag the natn supportg the right of gay upl to get married — or to walk to any bakery the untry and buy themselv a weddg ke.
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GAY MORMONS
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.' * lgbt mormon *
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. 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.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
A muny of support for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Mormons and those who love them. * lgbt mormon *
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. 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.
” 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.
While the curabily mdset has sce been mostly abandoned by the church, still lgers on the mds and beliefs of many who nnot believe that God would create people as homosexuals – people who seemgly have no place our theology or God’s eternal plan for fai – and not give them a means to be cured. “Print Hckley, faced wh the fact that apparently some had believed [marriage] to be a remedy, and perhaps that some Church lears had even unseled marriage as the remedy for the feelgs, ma this statement: ‘Marriage should not be viewed as a theraptic step to solve problems such as homosexual clatns or practic.
Gay Mormons are enuraged to rema celibate, as are all other sgle members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. * lgbt mormon *
Many the general church membership also began to soften their stance as they observed openly gay -workers, neighbors, and their own fay members livg happy, productive liv once they st off the shame and nmnatn they were raised wh. A 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey of Christian groups’ acceptance of homosexualy found that Mormons experienced the largt crease acceptance rat pared to all other nomatns, gog om 24% 2007 (send lowt after Jehovah’s Wns) to 36% 2014 (now tied wh Evangelils at send lowt), a 50% crease. However, as church lears saw their members followg society’s trend towards greater acceptance of homosexualy, cludg same-sex marriage, they began to speak out strongly aga – focg their attentn and rhetoric on the evils of same-sex marriage.
While always quick to reaffirm s stance that same-sex marriage and homosexual behavr are grievo ss, the church jt the last few years has taken a number of steps that monstrate improved unrstandg of and greater passn for s LGBT members:. ” Elr Christofferson, Sister Neill Marrtt, Elr Oaks and Elr Holland exprsed msag of tolerance and passn for LGBT people, wh Sister Marrtt statg: “This [LGBT rights] movement arose after centuri of ridicule, persecutn and even vlence agast homosexuals.
2015 – In March, Elr Christofferson gave an terview on KUTV Salt Lake Cy which he said that church members uld publicly advote for gay marriage whout havg their membership threatened, as long as their effort didn’t attack the church. While the etlogy of sexual orientatn is not yet fully unrstood (although there is strong evince of a blogil/geic ponent), we have the ttimony of untls numbers of gay people – cludg members of our own church – who have told that their sexual orientatn is nate and not chosen, and that tensive and persistent effort to change has not succeed. If you do not know any gay people personally and have not had the opportuny to really talk to them about their life experience, particularly those who are mted same-sex relatnships, you may not be able to accept eher or both of the above premis, and therefore may be unable to serly nsir what follows this article.