Are Mormons Now LGBTQ-Friendly?

Last week the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) announced they’ll now baptize and bless children of LGBTQ parents, and will no longer classify same-sex marriage as apostasy in their leaders’ handbook. The new policy, announced during the church’s 189th Annual General Conference, is a reversal of the 2015 Policy of Exclusion (POX), which excluded LGBTQ families from church ordinances. This is surprising given the…