Risg numbers of young adult Mormons the US are gay, lbian or bisexual

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

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 AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY ISN'T ENOUGH

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,.

THE MORMON CHURCH ANNOUNC PRO-HOMOSEXUALY POLICY — BUT GAY PARISHNERS SLAM AS NOT ENOUGH

" Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized.

RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

" 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.