In a rare news conference on Tuesday morning, LDS Church leaders announced their support for LGBT nondiscrimination legislation.
Source/Credit: Fox 13 News
By Ben Winslow and Ashton Edwards
Posted: January 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is supporting nondiscrimination bills involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people — while at the same time calling for protections for people of faith.
In a rare news conference on Tuesday morning, LDS Church leaders announced their support for LGBT nondiscrimination legislation.
“God is loving and merciful,” said Sister Neill Marriott of the LDS Church’s Young Women’s program. “Jesus ministered to marginalized outcasts.”
“It’s for this reason that the church has publicly favored laws and ordinances that protect LGBT people from discrimination in housing and employment.”
But the church also complained of people being branded “bigots” for speaking for their faith.
“When religious people are publicly intimidated, retaliated against, forced from employment or made to suffer personal loss because they have raised their voice in the public square, donated to a cause or participated in an election, our democracy is the loser,” said Elder Dallin Oaks, a member of the church’s Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
“It is one of today’s great ironies that some people who have fought so hard for LGBT rights now try to deny the rights of others to disagree with their public policy proposals,” said Elder Oaks.
Courtesy: Kenn Rasmussen
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