Mitch Mayne, the only publicly recognized openly gay man with a calling as elevated as executive secretary in his ward, and really an important figure in the gay Mormon scene weighs in with the Washington Post:
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For his part, Mitch Mayne, a gay Latter-day Saint in the Bay Area, was disappointed by the church’s response to the Scouts’ move.
The BSA policy change “explicitly included room for us, as Mormons, to continue to call Scout leaders we deem worthy according to our principles,” he said, “a form of religious freedom that we’ve heralded as critical, and that we have been granted.”
Given that, the church’s statement seems “more than just unnecessary — it feels angry, afraid and punitive,” Mayne said. “These are not qualities most of us associate with our Savior.”
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