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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 5, 2014
I have long viewed Mormons as one of the last bastions of White conservatism on the planet (at least in the Anglosphere). But it seems that they too are giving into the pressure, and embracing the disease.
They have been changing their teachings for some time now, to make them line up with Jewish values, but it is still somewhat shocking to find that they are preparing to openly embrace homosexualism as in-line with their faith.
From the pro-queer site OZY:
“We branded ourselves as a hateful group in the eyes of the LGBT community and in the eyes of Mormons who are compassionate to LGBT individuals,” says Mitch Mayne, an openly gay Mormon who just completed a calling as a priesthood leader in his Bay Area congregation. He calls the Church of Latter-day Saints’ support of the amendment “un-Christlike.” “We flew in the face of what we stand for,” he says. “We drove division within the family unit and pitted father against son and brother against sister. The family unit is the reason we exist.”
Spencer Clark, a straight Mormon living in Maryland who volunteers as executive director for Mormons for Equality, says he felt like Mormons in disagreement with Church leaders on this issue had to defend themselves, particularly to gay friends, and say, “Hey, I’m not a bigot; this is not how I feel.” He adds that the public “blowback” from Proposition 8 was so big, he heard rumors from the Church office that leaders proclaimed, “We are never doing that again.”
In the wake of Proposition 8, which saw LGBT Mormons and straight allies leaving the Church, grassroots organizations of LDS members have gathered momentum to support a host of LGBT-related issues. In 2012 and 2013, thousands of Mormons marched in pride parades in the very Mormon state of Utah and across the U.S., carrying signs saying “Sorry We’re Late.” Clark’s organization currently focuses on national public policy initiatives to secure legal marriage equality, recently focusing on gay marriage in Utah.The efforts underway go beyond political actions. Therapists within the Mormon community are joining together to provide help that is not in the form of reparative therapy (a treatment protocol for “curing” homosexuality, often practiced by fundamentalists in a variety of faith groups). Organizations like the Family Acceptance Project seek to decrease homelessness and suicide by providing education to religious families. Forty percent of Utah’s homeless are LGBT, and about half of them are LDS; some of them are LGBT Mormon youth who were kicked out of their homes after they came out. Utah also faces housing and job discrimination when it comes to LGBT people, and multiple organizations have taken on that fight.
Mayne’s former bishop, Donald C. Fletcher, lead the San Francisco Bay Ward from 2011 to 2013 and focused on LGBT outreach. Mayne explains Fletcher’s message was “Please come back,” and he called on Mayne to serve as an openly gay leader and asked him to encourage inactive Mormons to return. Since then, other wards have contacted Mayne to ask how they can follow in his congregation’s footsteps.
Some people are turning to very direct and personal interactions. Sherri Park, a retired teacher who now volunteers with Mormons Building Bridges, started Sit With Me Sundays. Mormons volunteer to accompany a returning LGBT Mormon to church, and last December about 400 Mormons across the country participated. She and her husband also started a scholarship fund donating five $1,000 awards annually to young LGBT Mormons.
The outreach seems to be working. Public perception on marriage equality has changed: recent polling in Utah showed 72 percent of people support civil unions and 48 percent support gay marriage. The latter is 20 percent higher than what it was just two years ago. Park and Clark both say Mormons are more likely to speak out in support of LGBT people than they were a few years ago.
This is the way of the modern system. It infects everything it touches, and eats it out from within. There truly is no fighting it, short of fully abolishing it.
