It was regional/national news when an openly gay man was called as an executive secretary. In San Francisco. That's how rare the "openly gay Mormon" is.
Like I said before, we are just now in 2016 getting to the point where the church feels okay in saying that gay people exist. Before it was just persons who experience same-sex attraction. And it's true that there are people with SSA who don't self-identity as gay. But it was like the church was afraid that if they acknowledged that being gay was a form of being or identity, and that the entire theological structure on gays (made of particle board and elmer's glue) would come crashing down.
This is an example of how slow the change currently is. But it is change..
I wonder if there is a member of Westboro baptist who is currently blogging about change in attitude toward gays in their faith and how it is slowly evolving.
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