Mormon church’s gay policy means the next prophet’s challenge may be retag lennials, who view polics and issu differently than olr members

Contents:

• NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH
• MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY ISN'T ENOUGH
• MORMON CHURCH’S GAY POLICY MEANS THE NEXT PROPHET’S CHALLENGE MAY BE RETAG LENNIALS, WHO VIEW POLICS AND ISSU DIFFERENTLY THAN OLR MEMBERS
• MORMON GAY POLICY IS 'WILL OF THE LORD' THROUGH HIS PROPHET, SENR APOSTLE SAYS

NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH

Instead, the immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual relatnships will be treated the same way. But, by no longer nsirg same-sex marriag “apostasy, ” the church has sentially lifted the threat of exmunitn for gay upl, church experts said.

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

The parent of a child who experienc same-sex attractn or intifi as gay should choose to love and embrace that child.

Those who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay n fully participate the Church. On April 4, 2019, the Mormon church announced an update to an antigay policy monly referred to as the "policy of excln.

MORMON CHURCH’S GAY POLICY MEANS THE NEXT PROPHET’S CHALLENGE MAY BE RETAG LENNIALS, WHO VIEW POLICS AND ISSU DIFFERENTLY THAN OLR MEMBERS

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

MORMON GAY POLICY IS 'WILL OF THE LORD' THROUGH HIS PROPHET, SENR APOSTLE SAYS

" 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 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. 13, 2015The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats is facg a growg backlash om Mormons upset about a new policy that bars children livg wh same-sex upl om baby-namg ceremoni and baptisms and clar members gay marriag to be apostat subject to church, while standg by s new policy, issued a clarifitn on Friday, sayg that the l affected only children whose “primary rince” was wh a same-sex uple — not those who might have a gay parent livg elsewhere.