{"id":3202,"date":"2006-06-08T00:37:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2006-06-08T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T04:37:13","slug":"nightline-gay-mormons-face-excommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/06\/nightline-gay-mormons-face-excommunication\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightline: &#8220;Gay Mormons Face Excommunication&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Nightline\/story?id=2051422&#038;page=1\">Nightline<\/a>&#8216;s first segment tonight focused on gay Mormons.<!--more--> Elder Marlin Jenson represented the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We realize that people have feelings and thoughts for which they may not be responsible and all we&#8217;re asking is that they control them and not let those feelings and thoughts bring them to behaviors that would bring them to violate the church&#8217;s law of chastity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report featured an extensive interview with Daniel Holsinger and Jay Christianson, two returned missionaries. &#8220;They are in their 20s, they are gay, and they&#8217;re a couple. And that&#8217;s a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report also featured several &#8220;Gamofites&#8221; &#8212; Gay Mormon Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t notice anything about the recent &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3180\">Letter from First Presidency of the Church to Church Leaders in the United States<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the report will not contain any surprises for people who frequent the Bloggernacle, but I was quite pleased with Elder Jenson&#8217;s performance. He represented well, not merely through his words, but through his demeanor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightline&#8216;s first segment tonight focused on gay Mormons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}