Last Tuesday evening, I was flooded with texts and phone calls asking me if I’d heard that my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, had endorsed the widely discussed Respect for Marriage Act. Conservative commentators around the country promptly piled onto church leadership, accusing them of being weak-kneed appeasers of the insatiable mob. But as I combed through the brief statement myself, it did not read to me the way commentators and news outlets across the country were suggesting. The statement reads, in part:
To me, this statement is not an endorsement of the Respect for Marriage Act’s provisions but of its process, in which members of religious and LGBTQ communities come together in good faith to discuss and develop policy solutions agreeable to both sides.
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