Gays have been watching new LDS President Thomas S. Monson to see if he would continue the church's recent thaw toward homosexuality. The church views homosexuality as a moral choice and active gays face excommunciation. Monson was rumored to be a hardliner on the issue. Monson offered some hope last week. Jennifer Dobner of the Associated Press reports that representatives from LDS church have accepted an invitation to meet with the gay Mormon group Affirmation. In February, three days after Monson was named president, Affirmation wrote him to again ask the church to meet with them. Dave Melson of Affirmation says:
Affirmation has tried five or six times over the past 31 years to meet with church leaders. This is their second response.
The first response, last year, was to politely blow off the gay group.
But this time, Affirmation leaders have been invited to meet with Fred M. Riley, commissioner of Family Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Harold C. Brown, the agency's past commissioner.
Though the men are administrators, not ecclesiastical leaders, the discussion has begun.
5 Comments:
We'll have to see how this meeting goes. Affirmation shouldnt' get its hopes up; after all Mormonism is entrenched in homophobia not unlike any other Christian sect. Understanding homosexuality can not come from the religious subjective reality. Until religionists accept reason and science as the origin of behavior, they aren't going to get too far.
Who's gonna be the top?
"The first response, last year, was to politely blow off the gay group."
It was very polite because usually LDS leaders just blow off each other.
LDS doctrines are so gay.
glenn, did the church really blow the gay group?
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