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.
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.
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.
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 *
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. 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.
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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. 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.
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. * lds gay testimony *
’”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.
“I actually had a very strong spirual imprsn that if I ntued to intify as gay, I would lim my progrsn, ” Mansfield said.