Mormon gay policy is 'will of the Lord' through his prophet, senr apostle says - The Salt Lake Tribune

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.

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

" 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 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.

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

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. Another change to the handbook adds “same-genr marriage” to a list of ndns nsired apostasy and grounds for Mormon Church has long opposed gay marriage.

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

Some Mormon ngregatns have quietly weled gay upl and their Bowmer/Associated PrsUntil the clarifitn on Friday, the only official explanatn the church had offered was a 10-mute viotaped terview wh D. There is an onle petn askg artists to ncel their performanc wh the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at s Christmas were immediate objectns on Friday to the church’s clarifitn, wh some Mormons sayg that puts unfair prsure on the children of divorced parents to choose to live wh heterosexual parents over gay on if they hope to rema the church. Her father, Donald Braegger, recently me out as gay and cid to rign this year before a disciplary hearg that uld have rulted Braegger, 55, said his story was the same as that of many gay Mormons whose children would be affected by the new policy: Even though he knew as a young man that he was attracted to men, he married a woman bee his church tght that homosexualy was sful, and he was a fahful believer.

He had seven children and spent years tryg to overe his homosexualy through prayer and reparative therapy.

After 26 years, he and his wife divorced about a year and a half his children were younger than 18, they would be barred om church membership unr the new policy if they were ridg primarily wh him and a gay partner. He rigned before he faced a disciplary hearg, he was not we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: New Rul on Gay Coupl and Their Children Roil the Mormon Church.