The recent high-profile divorce of homosexual Mormon blogger Josh Weed, who ended his “mixed orientation marriage,” has once again revealed that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is actually a protean ideology that alters with the times. In the new HBO documentary Believer, Dan Reynolds of the rock group Imagine Dragons calls for the LDS church to change its beliefs on LGBT issues.
Much has changed since the days of Brigham Young who taught the “Adam-God doctrine” (that the God ruling our world was formerly Adam) and that interracial marriage could only be “forgiven” through “blood atonement.” Blacks weren't ordained to the “fullness of the priesthood” until 1978, barring them from “ordinances” deemed necessary for “exaltation” to divinity.
The constant morphing of the LDS Church is in pointed contrast to the changeless truths of Catholicism. What can Catholics learn from the Mormon experience?
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