Mormons Postpone Meeting with LDS Gays
by 365Gay Newscenter Staff
(Salt Lake City, Utah) A face-to-face meeting between representatives of gay Mormons and church leaders that was to have taken place next month has been indefinitely postponed by the head of the LDS branch that had agreed to it.
Latter Day Saints President Thomas S. Monson agreed to a meeting in April with leaders of Affirmation, an organization for LGBT members of the LDS church, Fred Riley, commissioner of family services for the LDS, and Harold C. Brown, the agency’s past commissioner.
Affirmation had sought such a meeting for several years. It was to have taken place Aug. 11.
But in a letter to Affirmation, Riley suddenly called off the discussion, noting he was preparing to leave his position and that the meeting would best be handled by his successor, who has not yet been named.
The search for a replacement for Riley to head the Commission of Family Services has begun but could take up to six months.
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(Salt Lake City, Utah) A face-to-face meeting between representatives of gay Mormons and church leaders that was to have taken place next month has been indefinitely postponed by the head of the LDS branch that had agreed to it.
Latter Day Saints President Thomas S. Monson agreed to a meeting in April with leaders of Affirmation, an organization for LGBT members of the LDS church, Fred Riley, commissioner of family services for the LDS, and Harold C. Brown, the agency’s past commissioner.
Affirmation had sought such a meeting for several years. It was to have taken place Aug. 11.
But in a letter to Affirmation, Riley suddenly called off the discussion, noting he was preparing to leave his position and that the meeting would best be handled by his successor, who has not yet been named.
The search for a replacement for Riley to head the Commission of Family Services has begun but could take up to six months.
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