Gay and Mormon isn't a contradiction — the church says so. But the welcome runs out fast: celibacy for life, a mixed-orientation marriage, or you lose the temple recommend, the calling, the family.
Jess and Hannah trace the architecture behind the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "conditional belonging" for LGBTQ members: the same-sex-attraction-vs-gay language rules, North Star and Encircle, decades of church-counseled mixed-orientation marriages, Utah's suicide data, John Dehlin's 2015 study on orientation change efforts, and the 2015 exclusion policy that barred children of same-sex couples from baptism — reversed in 2019 with no apology. Part three of the institutional harm series, following "The Grammar of Harm" and "The Architecture of Exclusion." The welcome was never unconditional. This is the fine print.
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