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:
- POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
- MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats whout First Princy approval, Print Dall H. Oaks announced Thursday morng, April 4. * lds church gay *
Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats whout First Princy approval, Print Dall H. Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr may be baptized, if the ctodial parents give permissn for the baptism and unrstand both the doctre that a baptized child will be tght and the venants he or she will be expected to make, said Print Oaks. Instead the “immoral nduct heterosexual and homosexual relatnship will be treated the same way, ” he said.
“I want anyone who is a member of the Church who is gay or lbian to know I believe you have a place the kgdom and I regnize that sometim may be difficult for you to see where you f the Lord’s Church, but you do. “There are many polil, legal, and social prsur for chang that would change the fn of marriage or -emphasize s importance, nfe genr, or homogenize the differenc between men and women that are sential to acplish God’s great Plan of Happs. 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.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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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).
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.
CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
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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.
MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
At BYU, some of the celt technologi have been ed to attempt to end the gay surge. 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 parent of a child who experienc same-sex attractn or intifi as gay should choose to love and embrace that child.
Those who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay n fully participate the Church. “This news is an enormo relief to fai of gay children who n now fortably shower their gay children wh the same love and support they give their straight children who marry.
CHURCH UPDAT OFFICIAL ‘MORMON AND GAY’ WEBSE
Oaks almost immediately drafted a memo argug that “the terts at stake the proposed legalizatn of so-lled homosexual marriag” were “sufficient to jtify a formal Church posn and signifint efforts opposn. In 2021, after several high-profile cints at BYU — cludg a valedictorian g his graduatn speech to pronounce that he was “proud to be a gay son of God” and dozens of stunts lightg the school’s famo mountasi Y wh rabow lors — popular apostle Jefey Holland chastised BYU faculty members for “supportg ias that many of feel are ntradictory to gospel prcipl.
Church reversed s gay marriage stanceOn Thursday, the LDS church announced had moved at light speed (four years their se) and reversed a 2015 policy that said children livg wh their gay parents uld not be baptized until their 18th birthday, and that classifi people same-sex marriag as "apostat. You n bet provoked quieter but jt as termed phback om members of the church who have gay fay ’s no accint that this policy shift arriv wh new learship at the head of the church.
2015 policy seemed like an aberratnBut gog back four years when the church was cricized for s then-new policy on the children of gay parents and baptism, seemed an aberratn the arc of the church's evolutn on LGBTQ issu.