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.
Contents:
- MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH
- MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY ISN'T ENOUGH
- THE MORMON CHURCH ANNOUNC PRO-HOMOSEXUALY POLICY — BUT GAY PARISHNERS SLAM AS NOT ENOUGH
- RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH
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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. 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.
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.
Gay rights activists prott agast the Mormon Church’s alleged heavy support of the anti-gay marriage iative 2008,.
MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY ISN'T ENOUGH
The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, monly known as the Mormon church, unveiled a new webse – and new approach – to gay and lbian Mormons. * do mormons accept gay *
" Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized. " The church said that "immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual relatnships will be treated the same way.
" "[If] homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we're not treatg 'immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way, ' " as one person noted on Twter.
THE MORMON CHURCH ANNOUNC PRO-HOMOSEXUALY POLICY — BUT GAY PARISHNERS SLAM AS NOT ENOUGH
The PoX got majorly walked back — which is FANTASTIC — although I’ll pot out that if homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we’re not treatg “immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way” — jaclyn (@j_n_foster) April 4, 2019.
" wrote Calv Burke, who is gay and a stunt at Brigham Young Universy, which is operated by the LDS church. I believe & look forward to more wonrful surpris the futureI know there will e a pot my life when I will stand wh my fellow Sats & be able to say that I have not been nied any blsgs now or Eterny bee I am gay.
RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
Mormon and gay: Church says you n be both. LDS Church has lnched a new sectn of s official webse, tled "Mormon and Gay". Self-intified gay Mormon: The church's shift on this issue is "monumental".
As a creative director for church public affairs, Rosas was asked to help sign the church’s latt mpaign: a new sectn of s official webse tled “Mormon and Gay. As the office’s attentn fixed upon homosexualy, Rosas sctized himself.
Now he and his wife Elizabeth are featured promently on “Mormon and Gay, ” discsg how they have grown together as the new materials gave them the tools for “a healthy dialogue. No issue the last has divid church as eply as homosexualy.