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Secondary Questions / LGBTQ+

How does the Church teach members who experience same-sex attraction?

What the question is

The Church teaches that all people are children of God and worthy of love and full fellowship. Doctrine on marriage between a man and a woman is unchanged; the law of chastity applies equally to all members.

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How to weigh it

Holding to revealed doctrine while loving every individual person is the daily, lived reality of Latter-day Saints across the spectrum of these questions.

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