The Church clarified that children of gay parents won’t be prevented from attending services. In order for that child to get an exception from that rule? But, he said the group still considers it “incredibly cruel” that the church is forcing children of gay parents to disavow their parents’ sexuality. Her father is Gary Leavitt, a devoted member of the LDS Church.
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Long lines of Mormons handed in letters of resignation letters an attorney.
“Many of them are asking, why are we wasting our time? Is collaborative dialogue even worth it?” “I don’t need a bunch of church leaders telling me what to do”.
Church officials declined an interview, but in a recently released video, church leader Todd Christofferson explained that the intention is to leave no room for doubt. Written in the church’s “Handbook 1”, a book of instruction and guidelines for the church’s lay clergy, same-sex couples are declared “apostates” and subject to excommunication. It was later struck down by the courts.
A year later, in 2009, two men kissing on church property in Salt Lake City were handcuffed by church security.
It’s prompted hundreds of members to leave, and a protest was yesterday held outside the church’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. “Being excommunicated is worse than dying in Mormondom”.
Pride flag flies in front of the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City during the protest.
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“We will heal the wounds the LDS church has caused”, said a speaker at the mass LDS Resignation rally to the crowd.
But Biskupski said actions like Johansen’s initial removal of a child from same-sex foster parents do much to set back the relationship between the LGBT community and Mormons.
Relations between the gay and LDS communities seemed to be warming after the bitterness of Proposition 8. “All families matter, all lives matter”, said Aaron Rosen. He called the rules the most damaging public relations move by the church since it urged members in 2008 to bankroll and support California’s gay marriage ban.
“The provisions… that apply only to those children whose primary residence is with a couple living in a same-gender marriage or similar relationship”, the three-member board said in a statement.
“It’s not easy, but on the same token I have to stand up for humanity and stand up for the right thing, and to me supporting these people here and their effort to understand those of us who are in mixed families. That’s the way it felt”.
McNamara said she converted to Mormonism five years ago in Chicago and moved to Utah partly to learn more about the faith.
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Protesters, including gay and lesbian couples, carried signs reading, “Standing on the side of love”, and, “These polices harm all of us”.
