Trib: SF bishop promotes change in how LDS treat gays ...

[_Rollo Tomasi]

Below is a link to an article in yesterday's Trib written by a current bishop of a SF ward about how LDS treat and talk to gays and the changes that need to be made. Baby steps, baby steps ....

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/ ... t.html.csp

[_Cylon]

Yeah, that article was printed in the Washington Post, too, that's where I read it.

[_degaston]

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/5 ... dents.html

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA STAKE: (Feb. 18, 2007) President — Roger Ashton Carter, 55, executive director at Morgan Stanley, succeeding Grant Shurtliff Richards; wife, Kathryn Crawford Carter. Counselors — Donald Calvin Fletcher, 51, ophtalmologist at California Pacific Medical Center; wife, Terri Lee Bateman Fletcher. James Clark Hardy, 52, city manager in Foster City; wife, Luisa Amparo Gonzalez Hardy.

[_lulu]

"evidence-based guidance for LDS families"

I'm going to have to chew on that one for a while.

[_Drifting]

From the article:

"Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-Day Saint Families With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Children," co-written by Caitlin Ryan, director of the Family Acceptance Project (http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/) and Bob Rees, a former LDS bishop, may well be the tool that gives Mormon families what they need to accept their LGBT children.

That there shows what a messed up religion Mormonism is.
If Mormon Parents need a 'tool' to accept their son or daughter simply because they are gay then they don't deserve to be parents. The fact that it is their religious belief that puts parents in this position shows that Mormonism is far far removed from understanding the principles of Christs teachings.

The First Presidency and Apostles should hang their head in shame and apologise unreservedly for propagating homophobic anti-gay sentiments in their membership.