Keith Burns: 'Far more important than the sexual orientation, gender identity and relationship status of intimate partners is the way each partner treats, loves and cares for one another.'
Volunteers set up the UVU LGBT student services booth across the street from the Provo LDS Temple, at the 5th annual Provo Pride Festival, Saturday, September 16, 2017.authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Although leaders and members today have fostered a more accepting and loving tone regarding LGBTQ+ issues, individuals in intimate same-sex relationships continue to be restricted from temple worship and leadership positions and are also at risk of ecclesiastical discipline that can result in excommunication.
Conversely, if same-sex couples adopt or have children through artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization or a surrogate, their family arrangement is considered sinful and unworthy of temple sealings. Thus, the argument is not really about who can and cannot have children and more about a system of marking queer relationships as inferior to heterosexual relationships.
She continues by pointing out that “neither queerness nor straightness is what determines morality. All genders and sexual orientations can engage in moral or immoral behaviors.”
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