Beg gay and mormon is a unique experience. Growg up wh the church's teachgs on the LGBTQ+ muny is tough for LGBTQ+ mormons.
Contents:
- MORMON LEAR REAFFIRMS RELIGN'S OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE
- RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
- CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
- THE MORMON CHURCH ANNOUNC PRO-HOMOSEXUALY POLICY — BUT GAY PARISHNERS SLAM AS NOT ENOUGH
- MORMON CHURCH AND GAY RIGHTS
- MORMON AND GAY: HOW IT’S GOG
MORMON LEAR REAFFIRMS RELIGN'S OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE
In 2015, the Mormon Church barred children om same-sex marriage om the church. An expert explas why this policy was tied to a larger nservative battle agast gay rights. * mormons against gays *
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.
RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
In a speech at Brigham Young Universy, Rsell M. Nelson said The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats mt stick to s opposn of gay marriage. * mormons against gays *
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. 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.
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.
CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
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. * mormons against gays *
He sgled out one openly gay BYU alum particular, former valedictorian Matt Easton, who me out as gay his 2019 mencement speech. 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.
THE MORMON CHURCH ANNOUNC PRO-HOMOSEXUALY POLICY — BUT GAY PARISHNERS SLAM AS NOT ENOUGH
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.' * mormons against gays *
But, by no longer nsirg same-sex marriag “apostasy, ” the church has sentially lifted the threat of exmunitn for gay upl, church experts said. What I argue is that the roots of rhetoric of the foc on fay go back to the emergence of the anti-gay polics of relig nservativ startg the 1970s.
MORMON CHURCH AND GAY RIGHTS
At the time, several preachers and anti-gay activists such as Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye and others creasgly spoke out agast the gay rights movement as a threat to “fay valu” that would unrme society.
MORMON AND GAY: HOW IT’S GOG
In 1977, evangelil activist Ana Bryant lnched a natnal mpaign agast the gay rights movement, specifilly to keep gays and lbians out of schools, and succsfully rallied nservativ to this e. Bryant’s mpaign was a simple slogan, “Save Our Children, ” which picted gay men and lbians as pedophil recg young people to “perversn.