Can You Be Both Mormon and Gay?

Historically, the Mormon position on homosexuality is distinct from that of other Christian traditions?and perhaps even more resistant to change. For Mormons, human beings are literally, not metaphorically, the children of Heavenly Father. Connell O?Donovan, a scholar of Mormonism?s history with homosexuality, argues that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, ?deified heterosexuality when he introduced the doctrine of a Father and Mother in Heaven?a divine, actively heterosexual couple paradigmatic of earthly sexual relationships.? Smith?s successor, Brigham Young, taught that God ?created man, as we create our children; for there is no other process of creation in heaven, on the earth ? or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be.? Mormons believe that they can progress spiritually by marrying in the Mormon temple, where they are ritually sealed to their spouses, not just for time, but for eternity. It is through the monogamous, heterosexual family that Mormons reach the highest levels of heaven.

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