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Jaren Hall made history Saturday as the first Black quarterback to start for Brigham Young University in its nearly 100-year history as a college football program. “I am very proud of my ancestors, very proud of my ethnicity and all the things that come with that,” Hall, a redshirt freshman,…
By Sheryl Estrada Members of the group Mormons Building Bridges march in the Salt Lake City, Utah’s Gay Pride Parade in June. Photo by Shutterstock. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ new policy is causing a mass exodus. Thousands of members submitted letters of resignation to the church…
Following an executive committee meeting proposing to end a ban on gay troop leaders, the Boy Scouts of America’s national executive board voted on Monday in favor of officially lifting the ban “effective immediately,” according to the BSA’s website. The proposed new policy received criticism prior to the national executive…
By Sheryl Estrada Elder Dallin H. Oaks speaks at a news conference on Jan. 27, 2014. New laws protecting the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people now have the support of the Mormon Church, with the condition that religious freedom not be compromised. The church, however, still does…