Monday’s Post Register captured LDS feelings.
On the front page, in the newspaper’s name at the top, you can see a picture of the new LDS Church President, Thomas S. Monson, standing and holding upright his right hand. These words are attached, perking your curiosity to read the article on page 1 of section C.
‘Come back’
LDS president invites strayed Mormons back to the church.
I read the article, and then turned to C4 for this complementary article, “Gay Mormon group to meet with church leaders.”
I didn’t realize there was an LDS gay community – 2,000 active members with a visible front on the internet.
Affirmation is their name. I need to put this group in the sidebar of HI4LDS.
And with the winds blowing in America’s culture, the pressures mount for traditional Mormonism in the ongoing conversation. To be successful in America’s politics of the new century, the LDS institution will need to change or revamp their “religious truth.”
Will they?
Have you ever heard a religious, active-homosexual man take the words of Jesus and whisper them back to you,
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
I know this is an old post, but I found it during some research. There isn’t ever going to be any “change” or “revamp” in the LDS church’s stance on anything. Never has been, never will be. Any seeming compromise of the past placed fully in the proper contexts, having the biases of the observer filtered out, is evident that it is not a compromise at all. No theology will be omitted or “revamped” in any way.
President Monson extending a welcome is not really an extension at all. The extension was always there, he was just repeating it. This plea for people to come back is part of the same message that has always been in the church. Come unto Christ.
A meeting with the “gay Mormon group” will not be a negotiation meeting. President Monson loves them, but he is not authorized to make any compromises so that they feel less “outcast-like”. An explanation as to the true position of the church would be under way, so that full and complete understanding can assist love in healing any wounds imagined by the offended group. As far as any apology, the church has never treated them unfairly, but individual members would be the ones that need to make an apology.
Conference talks have repeatedly addressed that we are not to treat anyone unfairly, but we are not to excuse sin. Some people just think that if their favorite pastime is considered a sin by another group, that that group is treating them “unfairly”. This is fallacious. We can’t stop all people from getting offended, but we can have a clear conscience that we didn’t cause that offense.