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Mormon agency delays meeting with gay Mormon support groupAssociated PressSunday Jul 27, 2008 SALT LAKE CITY - An August meeting between a gay Mormon support group and a church-run social service agency has been indefinitely delayed pending the appointment of a new director for LDS Family Services.
In a letter sent Wednesday, outgoing director Fred C. Riley said the matter would best be handled by his successor, who hasn’t been selected. LDS Family Services is an arm of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Riley was to hold the meeting at the request of church president Thomas S. Monson. It was seen by leaders of Affirmation, an international support group for gay, lesbian and transgender Mormons, as a sign that church leaders recognized a need to better support gay Mormons and their families. Affirmation has no direct affiliation with the church.
Affirmation’s Assistant Executive Director David Melson told The Associated Press.
It’s unclear how soon the meeting could be rescheduled.
Affirmation hopes the delay is unrelated to the church’s efforts to help pass California’s Proposition 8, which would define marriage in that state’s constitution as being only between a man and a woman.
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