In 1843 Joseph Smith preached about friends sleeping in each other’s arms. In 1962 a Mormon apostle ordered missionaries into separate beds. D. Michael Quinn traces the LDS turn on homosexuality.
Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn documented how the Mormon Church handled same-sex intimacy from the 1800s through 1976. The episode covers Utah’s 1876 sodomy law, the quiet handling of Patriarch Joseph F. Smith in 1946, BYU aversion therapy, Spencer W. Kimball’s marriage counsel, and the 1976 handbook change from “homo-sexual acts” to “homosexuality.” It then follows Dallin H. Oaks and the church’s Supreme Court briefs from Proposition 8 to today. The certainty you were handed as timeless was assembled in pieces, and the dates are on the record.
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