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I’m excited to have Greg Prince back on the show!  We’re going to talk about his new book, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church and we will discuss the history of LDS Church policy toward gays, and get into not only Prop 8 in California, but Prop 22 as well.  We will also talk about the legal battles in Hawaii that led to federal legislation prohibiting gay marriage. But why did Greg write this book on church & politics?

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Initially, I thought I would write a book about Prop 8 and the Mormon Church’s role in it. Because even though people knew that there had been a role, there had not been anything published that tried to take a comprehensive look at that. When I started with Prop 8, I quickly began to realize that Prop 8 wasn’t told whole story. It reached backwards into Prop 22, which was similar legislation in California eight years earlier and that, in turn, was related to the Hawaii lawsuit that began in the early 1990s, which was really the first time when the courts took up the issue of marriage equality, in any serious fashion, enough so that people thought that that would be the turning point.

He’ll answer that in our next conversation….

church & politics - Mixing Church & Politics in LGBT Fight (Part 1 of 4) - Mormon History Podcast
Greg Prince details the history of LDS political fights over gay marriage from the 1990s through today.

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102: Early LDS Priesthood: Similar to Ancient Christianity?

101: Ailing Church Leaders:  “Not Ideal Governance.”

100:  The 4 LDS Leadership Vacuums – What Happened?

094: “There is Nothing in LDS Theology that Justifies Whacking Infants” (POX)

093: Greg Prince on History of LDS Policy Toward Gays

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PrevPrevious EpisodeHawley Leaves LDS for RLDS
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  • Date: June 1, 2019
  • Guest: Greg Prince
  • Theology: Gay-Mormon Issues
  • Historical Mentions Mormon History
  • Tags: Christian Right, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church of Latter Day Saints, Gay Hawaii, gay LDS, gay Mormons, Gay Rights, GT Podcast, Hawaii LGBT, iTunes, Latter-day Saints, LDS, LDS Church, LDS Church & Politics, Methodist, Methodist seminary, Mormon, Mormon Church, Mormon Proposition, Prop 22, Prop 8
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