>>I hate to say this, but is seems to be in part, the Mormons who are responsible for this.
Please explain why you think this.
Please explain why you think this.
The LDS Church took a beating, from the inside and outside, for aggressively supporting Proposition 8 in CA during 2008. Since then, the Church has moved on to other battles in the cultural wars rather than to continue to take on the homosexual-rights activists for several reasons.
Church leadership felt like it was left holding the financial bag after other evangelical denominations failed to come through with promised aid in the fight against Proposition 8. Top church officials were heavily involved in the creation of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the primary player over the last decade in the fight to outlaw gay unions.
Church leadership feared that continued support of anti-homosexualsexual marriage measures would continue to generate negative publicity which in turn would limit the ability of its farflung missionaries to engage potential converts.
The Church wanted to be more welcoming to its members who are afflicted with same-sex attraction.
There are 5 nationally prominent Mormons in the U.S. today.
1. Mitt Romney had advocated for homosexual membership in the BSA since 1994 when he was a member of the BSA National Executive Board. When he ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate, he went to the left of Kennedy on homosexual issues. On his watch as governor of MA, it became the 1st state to legalize homosexual marriage. When he took over the business leadership of the SLC 2002 Winter Olympic Committee, he would not allow Boy Scouts to volunteer at Olympic venues. Boy Scouts volunteered in droves for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. LDS Church leadership did not want to harm Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
2. Harry Reed is a U.S. Senator (D-NV) and current Senate Majority Leader.
3. Glenn Beck is a libertarian/conservative talk radio host and media mogul. He announced his support for homosexual marriage in 2013.
4. Jon Huntsman Jr. is a past progressive governor (R-UT) and former ambassador to Red China under POTUS #44 BHO. In FEB 2013 he (1) announced his support of homosexual marriage and (2) signed the amicus brief of the plaintiff to oppose California’s Proposition 8.
5. Wayne Perry is the current BSA National President and co-owner of the Seattle Mariners. He personally pleaded the case with the Prophet of the LDS Church to support a change in BSA’s membership policy to accept homosexuals.