SALT LAKE CITY — The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued the following statement:
"We of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reach out with understanding and respect for individuals who are attracted to those of the same gender.
Aside from their odd defintion of respect (mine does not include excommunication, disfellowship, isolation and encouraging dishonesty w. ones self and ones community) they keep conflating sex w. gender—what they are really saying is that gender category one (fully functioning penis, no desire to deconstruct gender) should not interact w. gender category one and gender category two (more complicated, lets say vagina, and no desire to deconstruct gender) should not interact w. gender category two…and they are also assuming that gender category one and two are essential sexual categories, so for example, gender category 3 (FTM, Post-op) or gender category 37 (nevillests, with lemon gelato nipples) can never exist.
We realize there may be great loneliness in their lives but there must also be recognition of what is right before the Lord.
This is the other assumption—most of the queer folks I know who are depressed are not depressed because of there desire to interact w. similar gender categories, but are lonely because they spend at least 2 days a week (Sundays and scout or young womens meetings ) that there desires for love, companionship, sex or contact are sinful and against god. The only reason why they are lonely is the isolation caused by salt lake. Blaming the victim is what slimy defense lawyers do to rape cases. (Another thot…xians are a lonely people, from adam and eve falling from the grace of god, to Christ alone in the tomb, from the mystic desert fathers, to joseph smith in the grove, on his knees begging for answers,,,a desire for company, for a life partner, to end lonlieness is one of the few solutions, and really, the only solution to the lds, b/c they have no monastic tradition.

As a doctrinal principle, based on sacred scripture, we affirm that marriage between a man and a woman is essential to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.
Last time I checked, there were many families in the Holy Scriptures, and the idea of family was more diverse and more weird then people give credit for…haggar and abram and sara were a family, david and johnathon were family, Christ and his disciples, Christ and Mary of Magdala were family, the stripling warriors away from there mothers and fathers were family, brother brigham and his sister wives were family. There is more then one kind of family, and the sacred scriptures tell us this.
The powers of procreation
For 90 years Sara was Barren, and she laughed at the miracle of conception. Did the Marriage of Sara and Abram mean less for the years he was Barren, then when he wasn’t ? Christ didn’t marry or have children—he sent parents against the children and mothers against sons. He did not have the sentimental nature for childrearing, there was more important work to be done. For that matter neither did Paul (who claimed that marriage was for the weak, that it was a crutch for those who could not be celibate.)
are to be exercised only between a man and a woman lawfully wedded as husband and wife.
give unto ceasers, what is ceasers…why is marriage one of those things that we are giving to ceaser ? (honest question, one I would like an answer to.)
"Any other sexual relations, including those between persons of the same gender, undermine the divinely created institution of the family.
As I pointed above, there is no divinely created instituion of family…if you really want to do the numbers game, the most common structure of families in the xian bible is (now I know that we could also look to the bom, and the pearl of great price, but both of those were revealed (careful wording) in an era where sexual radicalism was conflicting w. sexual conservatives, and for most of the time sexual radicals won. Also, polygamy is still one the books, you can get married twice in the temple, w, widows and widowers, when everyone gets to the kingdom of heaven, the family unit (more then one mother or father, more then wife and family, will live together in harmony. ) god is more patient towards diversity, weirdness, then we give him credit for.
The Church accordingly favors measures that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman and that do not confer legal status on any other sexual relationship."
The church has always been to sell out its ethics in order to get either power or safety (the kind of raw pragimatism that saw the dissulotion of sister wives when utah was at stake, and the forbidding of blacks in the priesthood when missionary work in latin America and Africa found it too difficult to define exactly who was black. I think that the measure they favour is a continued protestant mainstreaming (one you can see in the Knight Initiave in California, or the censure of Sunstone)