Mormon gay rights: A shockg speech by Jefey Holland at BYU sparks a new LGBT fight.

Contents:

• ‘BOOK OF MORMON’ STAR CLAR ‘BUD LIGHT IS GAY’ AMID DYLAN MULVANEY NTROVERSY
• GAY MORMONS
• GAY MORMON, GAY CATHOLIC, GAY ACTIVIST: ‘BOOK OF MORMON’ STAR RORY O’MALLEY ON FAH, RIGHTS, AND RELIG EEDOM
• A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON
• GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
• BOOK EXPLOR WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY AND MORMON
• GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH: INTEND ACTNS, UNTEND CONSEQUENC
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

‘BOOK OF MORMON’ STAR CLAR ‘BUD LIGHT IS GAY’ AMID DYLAN MULVANEY NTROVERSY

The doctre of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which church is often mistakenly lled the Mormon Church, is que clear on the practice of homosexualy.

GAY MORMONS

Mormon doctre clar homosexual activy a s not bee is bigoted and old fashned, but bee the practice of homosexualy trat the eternal purpose of the fay. Any gay Mormon who has the stggl still has a choice of whether or not to act on those feelgs.

The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and s members ntu to, and will ntue to, receive a great al of cricism and persecutn for s view on homosexualy.

GAY MORMON, GAY CATHOLIC, GAY ACTIVIST: ‘BOOK OF MORMON’ STAR RORY O’MALLEY ON FAH, RIGHTS, AND RELIG EEDOM

Th, the LDS Church’s view on the practice of homosexualy will never change.

A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON

Bee the world already has a liberal view on sexualy and do not thk a great al of the practice of sex before marriage, views the LDS Church’s views towards gay Mormons as expectatns which are far too high. “It is neher fair, nor realistic” the world says, “to expect a person who has homosexual attractns to rema celibate for their entire liv.

The stggl of homosexual attractn for gay Mormons are, admtedly, very hard. Gay Mormons should not feel any shame for their feelgs, but they should turn to the Savr for His help and strength to overe all temptatns—whether those temptatns are related to homosexualy or not—and have fah that He will help them overe.

GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH

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. Given how ntent the qutn of gay rights has been among Mormons sce the church threw s whole weight behd California’s anti-gay-marriage Proposn 8 2008, the post-2019 perd has been one of wele relative quiet om the church. C., Holland’s speech was the first time I tly worried that my future kids might attend public school wh peers who would be tght about the evils of beg gay, week and week out at church.

” But the proclamatn served a sendary legal role as the church planned s offensive agast gay rights. The church clud the proclamatn as evince of s doctral mment to a heterosexual fay s amic brief agast gay marriage Hawaii jt two years later. Sex, or “procreative powers, ” are only for married men and their wiv (no gay sex unr any circumstanc).

BOOK EXPLOR WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY AND MORMON

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. He sgled out one openly gay BYU alum particular, former valedictorian Matt Easton, who me out as gay his 2019 mencement speech.

In simply intifyg himself as gay the urse of the speech, Holland alleged, Easton had “manered” the 2019 ceremony.

The same day Holland issued his revanchist addrs to the faculty, BYU’s admistratn was openg and publicizg s new Office of Belongg, a long-sought-for refuge not only for BYU’s growg number of openly gay stunts, but also s relig and racial mori, who are reported to face wispread bias and prejudice on mp, acrdg to a report issued by an ternal Commtee on Race, Equy, and Belongg. At BYU, some of the celt technologi have been ed to attempt to end the gay surge.

GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH: INTEND ACTNS, UNTEND CONSEQUENC

Still, today, the church funnels members who nfs to feelg “same-sex attractn” to support groups that enurage members to enter heterosexual marriag, wh promis that the gay feelgs will be overe after sufficient fahfulns, or at least, ath.

Matt Easton has ced the wily publicized 2016 ath by suici of one of his classmat at BYU, Harry Fisher, as part of the reason for his cisn to e out as gay his valedictorian speech. Due to Mormon teachgs that there is no way to have romantic relatnships wh those of the same sex and be exalted the afterlife, gay Mormons face high rat of lonels, suicidaly, and prsn.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

It has been cricised by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (Glaad) for s e of the word "fag" ("They missed the pot, " Stone gmbl), and nomated for a Glaad award for outstandg TV for s episo tled Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ri. " And as if to antagonise their long-sufferg liberal fans even more, Parker announc that the two he and Stone believe are "gay marriage and guns. "We're om Colorado, and look at the way Colorado's gone polilly the last few electns, " adds Stone, "'s now gay-iendly, weed-iendly, gun-iendly.

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.