Gay Rights and the Mormon Church - BYU Studi

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• WILL CALIFORNIA PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE S NSTUTN?
• GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH
• CG PROP. 22, GOV. REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• PROPOSN 8: WHO GAVE THE GAY MARRIAGE BATTLE?

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor.

WILL CALIFORNIA PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE S NSTUTN?

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 unnstutnal. The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock.

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.

There’s no ditn, however, that the majory of jtic have much appete to do the same on gay marriage. In January, the Public Policy Instute of California found that a whoppg 75% of likely voters support a policy allowg gay and lbians upl to marry. Stt Wiener (D-San Francis), an out gay man and one of 11 primary -sponsors om both chambers, said durg bate on the proposed amendment.

GAY RIGHTS AND THE MORMON CHURCH

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned lg cleared the way for same-sex marriag the state to rume and Proposn 8 has remaed on the books but unenforced.

CG PROP. 22, GOV. REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE BILL

When valedictorian Matt Easton spoke to his graduatg classmat the College of Fay, Home, and Social Scienc at Brigham Young Universy April 2019 and pronounced himself “proud to be a gay son of God, ”1 was notable—not for the ank self-intifitn, nor bee llege admistratn had preapproved the speech. Prce’s new book, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intend Actns, Untend Consequenc, arriv at a moment when acceptance of those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, asexual, or tersex has reached a tippg pot among members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. Jana Ris recently reported on Latter-day Sat attus toward homosexualy, based on data om the Next Mormon Survey (NMS) and om the Pew Rearch Center that was published her book The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changg the LDS Church.

PROPOSN 8: WHO GAVE THE GAY MARRIAGE BATTLE?

In that book, she explas, “The NMS asked whether rponnts believed ‘homosexualy should be accepted by society’ or ‘homosexualy should be disuraged by society. Overall, Mormons’ acceptance of homosexualy grew om 24% 2007 to 36% 2014 and 48% the 2016 NMS. This movement is driven large part by Millennials, more than half of whom say homosexualy should be accepted.