(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.
Contents:
- MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
- MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- MORMON CHURCH AND GAY RIGHTS
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats said on Tuday supports proposed feral legislatn tend to protect gay-marriage rights, as long as also protects the right of relig groups to believe such unns are agast God's word. * mormon church gay rights *
Nov 15 (Rters) - The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats said on Tuday supports proposed feral legislatn tend to protect gay-marriage rights, as long as also protects the right of relig groups to believe such unns are agast God's Utah-based church said a statement posted on s webse s doctre related to marriage - that God mand be between a man and a woman - would rema the church said would support the legislatn after a bipartisan group of senators negotiated an amendment to the versn passed by the U. Supreme Court do not end gay marriage rights, which nservative Jtice Clarence Thomas med was possible when the urt June end the natnal right to abortn by overturng Roe vs.
GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
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16, 2022The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats gave s support on Tuday to a feral bill that would provi creased protectns for same-sex marriage, a limed but notable step om a church that historilly has aggrsively opposed gay move me on the same day senators announced a relig eedom amendment to the legislatn hop of securg broar support. People, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch church’s latt posn shows s long and slow parture om s public support of Proposn 8 California, which banned gay marriage the state and was later stck down urt.
MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
But the church said would support the legislatn after a bipartisan group of senators negotiated an amendment to the versn passed by the U.S. Hoe July. The Mormon church said the amend legislatn "is the way forward." The bill is tend to ensure the U.S. Supreme Court do not end gay marriage rights, which nservative Jtice Clarence Thomas med was possible when the urt June end the natnal right to abortn by overturng Roe vs. Wa. * mormon church gay rights *
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. Public prsure on a Mormon gymnast to step down as an Olympic liaison 2011 bee he had supported California’s Proposn 8, which banned gay marriage 2008. Officially known as the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, the Mormon church, like other relig groups, has tried to strike a lite balance on gay rights.
Mormons have fought the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, for example, while tryg to avoid the “anti-gay” label sometim affixed to nservative fahs.
Nearly two-thirds of Mormons say homosexualy should be disuraged by society, acrdg to a 2012 survey nducted by the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life. At the same time, Mormon lears have taken an creasgly civil tone towards gays and lbians recent years, and gay rights groups cheered the church for endorsg the Boy Suts’ cisn to allow gay suts 2013. Notably, however, Mormon lears said Tuday that they would not – and uld not – alter their opposn to gay marriage, llg such unns, “ntrary to the laws of God.
MORMON CHURCH AND GAY RIGHTS
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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.
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.
UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
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. 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.
When valedictorian Matt Easton spoke to his graduatg classmat the College of Fay, Home, and Social Scienc at Brigham Young Universy April 2019 and pronounced himself “proud to be a gay son of God, ”1 was notable—not for the ank self-intifitn, nor bee llege admistratn had preapproved the speech.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Prce’s new book, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intend Actns, Untend Consequenc, arriv at a moment when acceptance of those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, asexual, or tersex has reached a tippg pot among members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.
Jana Ris recently reported on Latter-day Sat attus toward homosexualy, based on data om the Next Mormon Survey (NMS) and om the Pew Rearch Center that was published her book The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changg the LDS Church.
In that book, she explas, “The NMS asked whether rponnts believed ‘homosexualy should be accepted by society’ or ‘homosexualy should be disuraged by society. Holland noted that Generatn Z dividuals (currently aged seven to twenty-two) “tend to support gay marriage and transgenr rights as part of everyday life.