Mormon Policy on Homosexuality


	Mormon Policy on Homosexuality

iulawboy

11-18-2008 5:43 PM

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gay, mormon, homosexuality, religion

iulawboy says:

Stay closeted and celibate and you'll be ok with the Mormon church. To put it another way - deny who you are.

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11-18-2008 5:50 PM

pcmkrfn

I once watched a documentary about a Mormon man who was gay and being excommunicated...he died of AIDS before they could officially outcast him. A$$holes.

11-18-2008 11:43 PM

reimers

sounds like the same recipe that make pedophile priests.

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