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.'
Contents:
- MATTHEW GONG, GAY MORMON, REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY OM NER WAR TO NER PEACE
- LDS CHURCH ROLLS BACK POLICY THAT RTRICTED BAPTIZG CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS
- NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH
MATTHEW GONG, GAY MORMON, REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY OM NER WAR TO NER PEACE
The LDS Church rolled back s 2015 policy that rtricted baptizg children of gay upl and was cricized as penalizg kids. It no longer will refer to gay upl as apostat. * lds gay children *
The parent of a child who experienc same-sex attractn or intifi as gay should choose to love and embrace that child.
LDS CHURCH ROLLS BACK POLICY THAT RTRICTED BAPTIZG CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * lds gay children *
Those who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay n fully participate the Church. ”And th he me to see his gay self as a “weed” the Latter-day Sat is hardly alone such a feelg of beg misplaced, of urse, but his experience is unual. ”Though Gong’s relatnship wh his parents got off to a “rocky start” after he me out — not for lack of love or rejectn but for mismunitn — they are now as close as ever and talk almost every isn’t to say father and son agree on all asked 2018 if havg a gay son had affected his views on LGBTQ issu, the apostle replied, “We love each member of our fay.
C., area, where his dad worked at a policy thk the fay moved to Utah, the young Gong found himself a much more homogeneo muny wh a “domant culture, ” he says, where his peers and teachers weren’t exactly sure about his he Mexin? ”)He didn’t want to accept himself as gay, “bee the only queerns I had ever seen was bad” — the AIDS crisis, promiscuy, ath.
In movi, gays were victims, targets for bulli, or “the sassy iend.
NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * lds gay children *
He was lled to London on a Mandar-speakg missn his 21st birthday, at the start of the fal year on his missn, Gong wrote separate emails to each of his brothers and his parents to tell them he was gay. 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. Up until that time lears and members of the church had been reachg out to the gay muny to create greater unrstandg. Mormon lawmakers were stmental workg wh gays to pass laws 2015 the Utah Legislature to protect LGBTQ rights employment and hog.
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LDS msage: Treat all wh kdnsYou began to hear this the admonn of LDS general thori, who told their members that regard to homosexualy, they are to treat all people wh kdns and 2017, Utah beme one of the first Republin-domated stat to abolish a law that forbids teachers om addrsg topics related to homosexualy schools. The LGBTQ muny blam on the church’s prohibns on homosexualy, but the rearch is only begng and will probably take years before we have clear answers. I told them that when you work among gay people your entire reer and unrstand what good and cent and people they are, you n no longer hold the views you once held your youth – views shaped by scripture and Sunday school and sacrament meetg.
I've told lots of gay journalists about this discsn.