What it means for the church that more than a fifth of young members are queer | Episode 187

Mormon Land

English - June 23, 2021 23:32 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB - ★★★★ - 276 ratings
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A recent U.S. survey found that more than a fifth of Gen Zers who self-identify as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or other.

Nearly that many millennials (19%) do as well.

That is almost double the 10% that researchers Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll found in their 2016 Next Mormons Survey.

On this week’s show, Knoll, an associate professor of politics at Centre College in Kentucky, and Calvin Burke, an openly gay senior majoring in English at Brigham Young University and a media manager for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, discuss these latest findings and their implications for the Utah-based faith now and into the future.