Mormon leadership postpones meeting with gays
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One religious group that we don’t see having many public rifts over homosexuality is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Apparently, some higher-ups in the church leadership were to meet with gay Mormons next month, but the meeting has been called off.
The official explanation, the Chicago Tribune reports, is that one of the church leaders tabbed to participate has been reassigned. But David Melson, assistant executive director of Affirmation, an organization of gay and lesbian Mormons, believes that the real reason for the postponement is the debate over gay marriage in California.
The church is urging its 750,000 members in the Golden State to support a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that’s on the November ballot.
“The church is playing hardball right now,” Melson tells the Trib. “And a meeting with us would be inconsistent with that position.”
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