Per a New Campaign, the Mormon Church Accepts Its Gay Members as Long as They Aren't Too Gay
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has released new testimonials now featured in a section of its website called Mormon and Gay, starring several of its members who are struggling to reconcile their same-sex attraction with the church’s anti-gay teachings. Spoiler alert: This involves either total celibacy or marrying a person of the opposite sex.
As much as this is intended to show the church’s ability to keep up in a progressive world that is increasingly intolerant of sexuality-based intolerance, it’s more of a spit shining than a reconfiguration of an organization whose members have in past years poured millions of dollars into the fight against same-sex marriage. That much is clear via the words of church elder D. Todd Christofferson in a video on the site: “Homosexual behavior is contrary to those doctrines, always will be, and can never be anything but transgression. It’s something that deprives people of those highest expectations and possibilities that God has for us.”