I don't remember if I've actually written about this issue before, but I'm going to highlight it again here. First off, sexuality is not a choice. Pretty basic. Second, I don't feel that actively protesting people to change their beliefs is very helpful. Attitudes are very impressionable, but often only when you are young, making attitudes toward homosexuality pretty generational. For example, Bob Jones University had a ban on interracial dating based on religious claims (sounds pretty archaic right?). This ban was in effect until as recently as the year freaking 2000, when it was finally lifted by the university president. If you didn't guess, Bob Jones III was a healthy 70 years old at the time of the lifting. One more example: the most common argument against gay marriage I see and hear from my Mormon friends is this little gem:
That article was published back in 1995. However, as more members of the church come to realize homosexuality as natural, the likeliness of the new church leaders sharing this view increases. Many people like to present these kind of documents to justify their belief, but if we look further back in time we can also find things like the 1843 and 1886 Revelations published by the church claiming God's support for plural marriage. If we look at the LDS church today, you will notice a significant lack of plural marriages. If a document like that can be invalidated, so can The Family.
In the harshest terms, people who still oppose gay marriage, like modern racists, are a dying breed. As long as we actively participate in getting the right laws passed and continue to teach the younger generations the correct way, everything will shift to the way they should be.
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