Mormonism and gender issues

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Mormonism and gender issues

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• Same-sex attraction
  • Bullying and unkindness
  • Are family members taught to reject their children?
  • Church support of non-discrimination ordinances
  • Difficulties associated with SSA
  • Does attraction to the same sex persist beyond death?
  • Eternal fate of those unmarried?
  • Marriage as therapy?
  • Why do some people have same-sex attraction?
    • Is SSA "genetic"?
  • Suicide and same-sex attraction?
  • President Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk
    • Critics' tactics
  • Terminology
• Sexual identity
  • Can a person identify as gay or lesbian and still be a member of the Church in good standing?
  • Are members with same-sex attraction encouraged to be closeted or lie about their attractions?
  • What are the ramifications from denying a gay identity?
• Homosexual behavior
  • Feelings versus acts
  • Early LDS did not oppose homosexual acts?
  • False analogy between same-sex marriage and the priesthood ban
  • False analogy between same-sex marriage and plural marriage
• Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8
  • Does the Church seek to "impose its morality" on others?

Latter-day Saint women and the Church