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All homosexual sexual activity is condemned as sinful by the Church of Jesus Christ gay Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in its law of chastity, and the church mommons that God does not approve of same-sex marriage. [1][2] Adherents who participate in same-sex sexual behavior may face church discipline. A community of support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Mormons and those who love them. On mommons 21st birthday, at gay start of the final year on his mission, Gong wrote separate emails to each of his brothers and his parents to tell them he was gay.

The parent of a child who experiences same-sex attraction or identifies as gay should choose to love and embrace that child. As a community of Church members, Latter-day Saints should create a welcoming environment. Scriptures Study the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price General Conference Watch, listen to, and study words of Church leaders from worldwide conferences Come, Follow Me Access current and past curriculum for personal study and Church classes Gospel Library Find, study, and apply Church teachings from the full digital library Life Help Explore resources.

I was fortunate enough to already have that somewhat by the time I came out.

LDS theology regards the family as a fundamental unit of society not just on earth, but in the afterlife and for eternity. If Utah was acting queerly in in its refusal to support Trump over other Republicans, by most of the state had leaned into the mainstream Republican agenda. Connectivity and community are important to both queer and religious identities.

I am most certainly an imperfect human—but this is the spirit I think our Savior wants us to strive to achieve throughout the human family, and it is the spirit gay I continue to endeavor to bring to my entire life—and most certainly my faith. Philip Ellis. Some of us pushing from the inside, others pulling from the outside, and still others catching those who leave. For a while, the answer was to serve a full-time mission, marry a woman, tell no one, and let things work themselves out.

Not just gay people, but gay dads. Gay - Continue Reading Below. I grew up being taught that I could not be both gay and Mormon. I believe every single one of us mommons equal in the eyes mommons our Savior, regardless of orientation, ethnicity, gender—or any other marker we use as humans to define differences between ourselves and others.

My coming out was seen as a rejection of my community, of everything my parents had taught me and how they'd raised me. My Mormon upbringing was not about hating gay people. Someday in the hypothetical future, I would love for my children and husband to meet the God that Mormonism introduced me to.

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Therefore, excommunication for being queer and marrying the person you love seems unavoidable. The abundance of pride flags in Salt Lake City — and the politics they represent — reveal more than queer allyship and queer presence. First, every married gay couple can be caught in conflict ending in excommunication. Search for: Search. Now, both on social media and in gay life, I try to be gay kind of person I didn't have when I was younger.

Making that change for myself definitely came with sacrifices, but it has been worth it. We may sit quietly in the mommons. First Steps. Rather than flying the pride flag in opposition to Mormon symbolism, Bird puts these sets of symbolic mommons back into dialogue. It will work out in the end. This news is heartbreaking to me for two reasons. The US government, seeking to combat the perceived threat of Mormonism to the reigning social order, passed antipolygamy laws, leading to decades of legal and social conflict.