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POLICY - HOMOSEXUALITY
EXTERNAL LINKS, BOOKS 

Comparisons: Teachings Against Monogamy compared with Teachings Against Same-Sex Unions

Homophobia

Changes to "For the Strength of Youth" re: Homosexuality, Dec. 2001

George Albert Smith's 1948 response to homosexual members

Missionary Discipline 1951: guilty of indiscretion, not excommunication

Standards for Youth: Sexual Purity - from "For the Strength of Youth", pre-2001 version

Why Does The Church Oppose Homosexuality?

EXTERNAL LINKS

Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives, by Scott Bidstrup, personal essay

Homosexuality and the RLDS Church: A Progress Report, by William D. Russell, 1999 Sunstone Symposium

Mormon / LDS Chronology Of Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics

Private Pain, Public Purges: A History of Homosexuality at Brigham Young University

Same Gender Attraction - Church Position, Apostle Dallin H. Oaks, 1996

Sexual Purity Through Self Discipline - Aaronic Priesthood Manual

When A Loved One Struggles With Same-Sex Attraction, by A. Dean Byrd, assistant commissioner of LDS Family Services, Ensign, Sept. 1999

BOOKS

"Same Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example" by D. Michael Quinn, The University of Illinois Press, 1966

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