Mormon support for gay marriage gradually grows
Mormon Alex Landers supports the legalization of gay marriage despite her religion’s opposition for a simple reason: She has LGBTQ friends who she loves and respects, including her best friend who is a bisexual man.
“I can’t look at him and his boyfriend and tell them that they can’t be happy and they can’t love each other,” said Landers, 20, of Draper, Utah. “Heavenly Father loves us for who we are. He wants us to be happy, as long as we’re treating people well and we’re being who we truly are and we’re not hurting anyone.”
Source: Mormon support for gay marriage gradually grows – The Washington Post
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Well, so much for Al Mohler’s little confab with Mormons a few years back where he tried to link Christians and Mormons as possibly standing side by side against gay marriages and facing persecution. I said then that the Mormon church would eventually come to accept gay marriages as a working thing within their belief system. They have a track record of accommodation of societal norms. They dropped polygamy in order for Utah to be accepted into statehood. They accepted blacks into the church as a result of the civil rights movement. They changed and sought to portray themselves as a form of Christianity when the winter Olympics came to Utah. The church does not have a record of standing uncompromisingly for any of its beliefs when those beliefs are challenged by society.