Posts about gay marriage wrten by Bro Simon Says
Contents:
- MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE AND THE BIBLE
- GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
- TAG ARCHIV: GAY MARRIAGE
- MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- MORMON LEAR REAFFIRMS RELIGN'S OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE
- A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON
MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
* book of mormon gay marriage *
Topil Gui, “Homosexual Behavr”. Gui to the Scriptur, “Homosexual Behavr”. “What is the Church’s posn on homosexualy?
Is OK to be iends wh people who have homosexual feelgs?, ” New Era, January 2012. “Church Updat Official ‘Mormon and Gay’ Webse, ” Newsroom.
The bill also prohibs stat om nyg out-of-state marriage licens and benefs on the basis of sex, race, ethnicy or natnal the church has a long history of opposg same-sex relatnships – spent $20m tryg to pass proposn 8 California, a 2008 measure which banned same-sex marriage the state – has taken a more relaxed view of same-sex marriage recent 2016, the church said that weled members who intified as LGBTQ+, though reerated s stance that marriage is between a man and a 2019, the church repealed a 2015 le that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and said gay marriage is a s worth expulsn om the church. 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.
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE BIBLE
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.' * book of mormon gay marriage *
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.
GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats said on Tuday supports proposed feral legislatn tend to protect gay-marriage rights, as long as also protects the right of relig groups to believe such unns are agast God's word. * book of mormon gay marriage *
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. 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.
At BYU, some of the celt technologi have been ed to attempt to end the gay surge.
TAG ARCHIV: GAY MARRIAGE
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.
“Homosexual behavr vlat the mandments of God, is ntrary to the purpos of human sexualy, distorts lovg relatnships, and priv people of the blsgs that n be found fay life and the savg ordanc of the gospel, ” stat the Handbook of Instctns of the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. Homosexual behavr n be fiven through scere repentance.
Packer, referred to homosexualy throughout a sharply word sermon as “wrong, ” or “basilly wrong, ” “wicked, ” “impure, ” “unnatural, ” “immoral, ” “agast nature, ” “evil, ” and as a threat to civilizatn.
MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
I tled my addrs, “Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price, ” based on the notn that homophobia is pervasive throughout society and we are all at risk of experiencg s harmful effects. She ultimately exprsed how much my words had moved her, and through her sobs, told me the story of how her stepson, a young gay man, had killed himself three years earlier. “I have a ne-year-old son, whom I am que certa is gay, ” she told , as tears also streamed om her ey.
It has been cricised by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (Glaad) for s e of the word "fag" ("They missed the pot, " Stone gmbl), and nomated for a Glaad award for outstandg TV for s episo tled Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ri. " And as if to antagonise their long-sufferg liberal fans even more, Parker announc that the two he and Stone believe are "gay marriage and guns.
MORMON LEAR REAFFIRMS RELIGN'S OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE
"We're om Colorado, and look at the way Colorado's gone polilly the last few electns, " adds Stone, "'s now gay-iendly, weed-iendly, gun-iendly.
Straight Christians who affirm gay marriage as a valid choice are told that they are rejectg the Bible to do there any way someone uld legimately read the Bible and not see a msage agast all same-genr marriag? I grew up nvced that the Bible is clear on homosexualy as wrong. However, we also see six key vers that seem to directly addrs homosexualy as a s, three each half of the Bible.
A GAY MORMON READS THE SCRIPTUR: THE BOOK OF MORMON
16, 2022The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats gave s support on Tuday to a feral bill that would provi creased protectns for same-sex marriage, a limed but notable step om a church that historilly has aggrsively opposed gay move me on the same day senators announced a relig eedom amendment to the legislatn hop of securg broar support. People, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch church’s latt posn shows s long and slow parture om s public support of Proposn 8 California, which banned gay marriage the state and was later stck down urt. Gregory Prce draws om over 50, 000 pag of public rerds, private documents, and terview transcripts to pture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attus on homosexualy.
“This is an important book the nstant, plited, and dynamic dialogue regardg homosexualy and morn Mormonism. ”[23] In Salt Lake Cy, for example, the Church supported ordanc to protect gay rints om discrimatn hog and employment. The Church’s affirmatn of marriage as beg between a man and a woman “neher nstut nor ndon any kd of hostily toward gays and lbians.
They may exprs genue love and kdns toward a gay or lbian fay member, iend, or other person whout ndong any refn of marriage. [17] See Roger Trigg, Equaly, Freedom, and Relign (London and New York: Oxford Universy Prs, 2012); The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimatn agast Christians Europe, Report 2012 (Vienna, Atria, 2013); “European Parliament Rolutn on Homophobia Europe, ” adopted Jan.