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POLICY (HOMOSEXUAL) - MISSIONARY DISCIPLINE
1951: INDISCRETION NOT EXCOMMUNICATION
"In October 1951, Stephen L. Richards, a counselor in the First Presidency, instructed a mission president that a full-time missionary elder was only "guilty of a great indiscretion" for fondling the sexual organs of three boys, ages twelve to thirteen. Without "proof of actual penetration," Richards explained, this was "a superficial charge." Therefore, the counselor recommended against excommunicating the missionary for this homoerotic incident."
- from Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans, D. Michael Quinn, University of Illinois Press, 1996, p. 375.