Mormon gays tread lightly in latest bid for acceptance
Meeting with church leaders called historic
By Bonnie Miller Rubin | Chicago Tribune reporter
June 29, 2008
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SALT LAKE CITY —
While the church still teaches that gay sex is a sin and actively opposes gay marriage—which it will do from pulpits across California this Sunday—a first-ever meeting between Mormon officials and members of an advocacy group for non-straight Mormons, might suggest that such acceptance is more than wishful thinking.
Affirmation, which has more than 2,000 gay, lesbian and transgender members worldwide, officially requested the meeting earlier this year, shortly after Thomas Monson became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.