The LDS Church announced that the faith will stick with the Scouts after threatening last month to bolt from the youth group and form its own international organization for boys.
Some Mormons left church in tears, distraught at the anti-LGBT sentiments tossed around by their fellow believers. Others emerged exuberant, surprised by the kindness shown toward their gay brothers and sisters.
Mormon critic John Dehlin no longer is a member of the Utah-based faith he has known all of his life — he got word this week he has been excommunicated — but the podcaster still considers himself a Latter-day Saint.
Mormon mothers with children in the home as well as members who have been previously divorced now can be hired to teach in one of the LDS seminaries or institutes of religion.
A Mormon bishop in Los Angeles set off political fireworks by asserting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not worthy to enter one of the faith’s temples for his support of Democratic Party stances.