Latter-day Saint Conference Clarifies LGBT Teaching

A chaste gay man can have a fulfilling, even noble life, a Latter-day Saint apostle said Saturday, knowing that "God's standards are different from those of the world."

There are some things "that are completely and absolutely true," Neil L. Andersen said on the first day of the 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "These eternal truths are the same for every son and daughter of God."

The Utah-based church convened its twice-yearly gathering in downtown Salt Lake City's Conference Center for the faith's more than 16 million members around the world to hear instructions from their top leaders via television, radio and the internet.