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.
Contents:
- ‘ENDURE UNTIL YOU DIE’: LDS CHURCH’S LGBTQ POLICI PUT GAY YOUTH AT RISK, ADVOT SAY
- CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
‘ENDURE UNTIL YOU DIE’: LDS CHURCH’S LGBTQ POLICI PUT GAY YOUTH AT RISK, ADVOT SAY
In this terview, Tom Christofferson, a gay Latter-day Sat, talks about the so-lled "excln policy," which was stuted November 2015 and rcd 2019. He also discs what has happened The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and s LGBTQ members sce then, cludg the ntroversial speech by apostle Jefey R. Holland. * lds gay testimony *
The policy later was abandoned, but the pa among LGBTQ members and their alli has the excerpts om The Salt Lake Tribune’s “Mormon Land” podst, Tom Christofferson, a proment LGBTQ member and thor of “That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Fah and Fay, ” discs the November 2015 policy and subsequent were you when the new November 2015 policy beme public and what did you thk at the time? ImageYoung Adults Together Church: Mormon and Gay Webse. In the first few months after beg lled as a bishop, I was surprised when three sets of parents my ward each approached me private to let me know that they had a child who intified as gay or transgenr.
CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
Five years ago, Lolly Weed wrote a blog post about how she fell love wh a gay man. She didn’t anticipate that the blog would go viral or that she and her hband, Josh, would bee the face of what she lls a “mixed-orientatn marriage * lds gay testimony *
As a new bishop, was dntg to reach out to a member of my ward who intified as gay and need spirual help.
A Gospel Topics say explas: “The Church distguish between same-sex attractn and homosexual behavr. People who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual n make and keep venants wh God and fully and worthily participate the Church. Intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple.
The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats has been cricized for s polici relatg to gay members. LGBTQ LDS members argue the church learship’s stance leads to youth suici and self harm. * lds gay testimony *
Be reful not to lim members’ opportuni to ntribute if they intify as gay or transgenr. “Beg gay don’t translate to sex, ” he said. Feelgs of same-sex attractn are not a s, but actg on same-sex attractn is not a s, n be a who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay n fully participate the church believ that the experience of same-sex attractn is a plex realy for many people, Print M.
So a lot of people who are gay, bisexual, etc., they want to f , they have a ttimony and want to belong, but they don’t know how, so they leave, ” he said. Bird later me out as gay a gut opn piece published the Deret News. SALT LAKE CITY — Five years ago, Lolly Weed -wrote a blog post about how she fell love wh a gay didn’t anticipate that the blog would go viral or that she and her hband, Josh, would bee the face of what she lls a “mixed-orientatn marriage” — a happily married uple, one straight, one gay, who cid to build their liv together, pennt of the fiery polil disurse that often surrounds LGBT issu.
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Campbell, who said she did intify as lbian and is now married to a man, is featured a vio on the LDS Church’s Mormon and Gay Mock has never met the Weeds, but the news was “heartbreakg. ” Theirs is a journey of inty, agency and ttimony, and as several terviews wh tradnally married Mormons who intify as gay dite, no two paths are alike. ’”Lolly Weed says the uple experienced a paradigm shift their marriage when they began to thk of Josh not as “a broken straight person” but rather as someone who intified as gay.
“You’re no longer a broken straight person but you are gay, that’s what you are. Dpe Mansfield’s same-sex attractn, he said he ma a nsc cisn to stop intifyg himself as gay.