Mormons in Seattle
Gay Mormon Celeste Carolin wants to stay active in the LDS Church — and to get married
By Jana Riess — May 5, 2015
Seattle Mormon Celeste Carolin wants to marry the love of her life. Under current LDS policy, that means her options are to either be excommunicated or to voluntarily resign from the Church. "I will choose neither," she says. "I choose to stay."
Seattle Mormon leaders to gays: Come back to church
By Jana Riess — October 14, 2014
“Seattle is mirroring what we've done in [the] San Francisco Bay Area: throwing the doors open for anyone who wants to join with us on Sunday,” says Mitch Mayne. “That means LGBT individuals are welcome to come to church regardless of where they are in their personal lives -- single and living under the confines of the policy as we understand it today, married to a partner of their same gender, or dating someone new every night."
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