DiscussMormonism.com

Here:
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Affirmation, with more than 2,000 gay, lesbian and transgender members, is not recognized by the church, which at one time labeled homosexuality as a problem that required help.

"Although there are many areas of hurt and disagreement that have separated us, there are many more areas on which we can find agreement, and in doing so, become a blessing in the lives of many of the Saints, both straight and gay," the group wrote in its invitation to Thomas S. Monson last week.
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Such a meeting with Monson and his counselors _ a triumvirate known as the First Presidency _ would be unprecedented, said David W. Melson, the group's assistant executive director.

"This was something we've talked about for a while," Melson said. "With the death of President Hinckley and the installation of new church leadership, it seemed like the appropriate time."
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Melson said a new approach could prevent Mormon parents from kicking their gay children out of their homes and reduce the number of suicides among young gay men.

"I would like for us never again to have gay individuals, particularly our young people, being told that they are not welcome in the church they grew up in," he said, whose group was founded in 1977 by closeted gay students at the church-owned Brigham Young University.

The above link is from Fox News. It's also available here (an Idaho TV News website). Both sources got the story from the AP (Jennifer Dobner - yay!).

I suspect that Affirmation has released this as a "news item" so as to pressure President Monson to meet with them (else how would the AP get a hold of supposedly "private" correspondence to President Monson?).

So what do you think? Should President Monson meet with them?