"Mormons have really come along way on LGBT"

[Delta4Embassy]

Someone said that the other day in a thread. I said it was debateable. Then I found this.

Gay Mormons Outraged by Church's Crackdown on Same-Sex Relationships - Breitbart

"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gay and lesbian Mormons and their supporters are reeling over a rule change by church officials that says members in same-sex marriages can be kicked out and their children are to be barred from being baptized unless they disavow homosexual relationships.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints disseminated the handbook changes this week to local church leaders around the world. The goal was to provide clarity to lay leaders who run congregations, church spokesman Eric Hawkins said.

But the revisions triggered a wave of anger, confusion and sadness for a growing faction of LGBT-supportive Mormons who had been buoyed in recent years by church leaders’ calls for more compassion and understanding for LGBT members.

“It feels like they are extending an olive branch and hitting you with it,” said Wendy Montgomery, a Mormon mother of a 17-year-old gay son. “It’s like this emotional whiplash.”"

rest at link

So ya, not so much no.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This likely contributes to the perception:

Mormon Church to accept gay Boy Scouts

Clearly the Church is seeking to soften its opposition to homosexuality in its dealings with the outside world – within the faith one still faces condemnation.

 

[The Great Goose]

It's highly politically charged. Looks like a simple backlash to me.

 

[Avatar4321]

You seriously didn't think there weren't going to be membership consequences for violating laws of the Church do you?

 

[longknife]

The Mormon church was based on the tenet that a man and woman are meant to join to be fruitful and have lots and lots of children.

Same-sex couples simply cannot obey that tenet.

Nothing sinister about it.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

The Mormon church was based on the tenet that a man and woman are meant to join to be fruitful and have lots and lots of children.

Same-sex couples simply cannot obey that tenet.

Nothing sinister about it.

That's a rather hyperbolic exaggeration of that tenet. I wouldn't say that the church is “based on” it; as there are other doctrines that are far more essential than that; but the church does place a great deal of significance on the importance of marriage and family.

The end result is the same—homosexuality is an affront to marriage and family, and to willfully engage in or support it is irreconcilable with the core values for which this church stands on such matters.

 

[Mudda]

You seriously didn't think there weren't going to be membership consequences for violating laws of the Church do you?

Thousands Quit Mormon Church in Mass Resignation

 

[longknife]

You seriously didn't think there weren't going to be membership consequences for violating laws of the Church do you?

Thousands Quit Mormon Church in Mass Resignation

Good for them. They weren't members in "good standing" anyway.

 

[onefour1]

1 Corinthians 11:11
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

It was the plan of happiness by God from the beginning. He instituted marriage between a man and a woman. Going outside of God's will is sin. Man and woman were meant to be joined together for eternity and become one flesh and to have spirit children in the hereafter. Homosexuality is a an affront to God's plan. For this reason God considers it an abomination. Homosexuality seeks to thwart the will of God.