The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is, today, facing a dilemma similar to the one that festered for decades and was based on its treatment of its Black believers as second-class members. The dilemma was resolved in 1978 when the then church hierarchy received a revelation from God ending restrictions on Blacks, granting them full church membership.
Today, it’s LGTBQ believers who are second-class church members. The church’s position and the conundrum, simply put, is: We love you, but we reject you. If you act on your God-given sexuality, you are not welcome to fully participate in the LDS church.
It’s a position that’s causing loads of pain among the church’s LGBTQ members and many straight faithful as well.
Let’s hope that members of the church’s First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve cock an ear toward heaven and that a revelation is forthcoming.
Allan W. Smart, Salt Lake City
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