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🗓️ 20 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the groundbreaking news program that delves into the heart of Mormonism. Your weekly window into the unique intersection |
0:22.3 | of news, history, and culture |
0:24.5 | that resonates with the tapestry of Mormonism. |
0:27.8 | So whether you're tuning in from the heart of Utah |
0:29.9 | or joining us from around the world, |
0:32.9 | your favorite news program starts now |
0:35.3 | where news meets insight |
0:37.3 | and the stories of our faith unfold. |
0:41.9 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday, August 19th, and boy, has it been a week for news. |
0:49.6 | We honestly had so many stories that we're going to cover today and so many more that we could have covered. |
0:54.6 | We had to hold ourselves back. I am joined by my esteemed and knowledgeable colleagues, Bill Real. How are you tonight? I'm doing excellent, Rebecca. How are you? Fabulous. I'm great. And Radio Free Mormon, how are you? I'm here. Happy to be here, Rebecca. That's all we can really say. We are here. We're going to begin tonight. I believe our first |
1:12.2 | slide is some breaking news. And I think RFM is the one that's going to cover this. Either me or Bill. |
1:19.2 | This is so breaking. We hadn't even flipped a coin to see who is going to cover it. Did you want to read this, |
1:23.5 | Bill? Yeah, let me go ahead and do that. So this is a post on Facebook on the |
1:29.4 | Latter Gay Stories Facebook group. And we're just getting word of this in the last here a little |
1:35.9 | bit. So folks, I hope that if you haven't heard this, this information is interesting to you. |
1:43.1 | But here's the post. About a year ago, we were informed that attorneys and church leaders with the Church |
1:48.7 | of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in the process of revising the handbook of |
1:52.9 | instructions as it relates to transgender members of the church. |
1:57.1 | At that time, we immediately reached out to affirming and empathetic employees and general authorities who have helped create better dialogue in discussion surrounding LGBTQ plus policy within Mormonism. |
2:10.8 | Some of these individuals were involved in the discussions for this upcoming change. |
2:16.5 | Today, the church released a supplement to the Transgender Section of the General Handbook. |
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