Postmormon Postmortem
How Did Mormon Leaders Go From Kissing Men in Public to Aversion Therapy?
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In 1843 Joseph Smith preached about friends sleeping in each other’s arms. In 1962 a Mormon apostle ordered missionaries into separate beds. D. Michael Quinn traces the LDS turn on homosexuality.
Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn documented how the Mormon Church handled same-sex intimacy from the 1800s through 1976. The episode covers Utah’s 1876 sodomy law, the quiet handling of Patriarch…