In what seems to be a progression of culture ahead of policy change, the school’s dean approved the speech
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints considers same-sex marriage to be a “serious transgression” — and, until this spring, treated Mormons involved in these unions as apostates, subject to church disciplinary hearings that could result in their excommunication.
“I am not broken,” he declared. “I am loved and important to the plan of our great creator. Each of us are.” A private conquest, the speech also marked a notable chapter in a searching public debate about faith, sexuality and generational change. “My generation, and even more so the generation after me, we’re changing the way we talk about our identity and who we are,” Easton said. “It’s okay to be different, or not fit the norm. When I started at BYU, I didn’t think that. I thought that I had to be what everyone before me was. I do feel from my own experience that this is changing, or maybe I’m changing. I hope that our country, my faith, my community will follow in a similar fashion.
“I strongly suspect that if I reapplied I would not be accepted,” Kris Irvin told The Post. A Mormon leader was excommunicated in 2017 for living as a woman. Easton was born and raised in Salt Lake City, where his father works as a chemical engineer and his mother, who has been battling cancer, stays at home. His parents were high school sweethearts. His family has been Mormon for generations.
As graduation approached, the valedictorian of each department was eligible to apply to speak. He put his name forward and was selected. He wondered what to do with his platform, and whether it would be best to “give a speech just like any other valedictorian, saying things I’m grateful for, pumping people up.”
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