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The tithing settlement interview could be an opportunity to share the “Supportive Families, Healthy Children” brochure with your bishop.

Erika Munson: Use Tithing Settlement Interview to Educate Your Bishop
“An opportunity to talk to your bishop about making your ward a more welcoming place for LGBT brothers and sisters”

by Hugo Salinas
December 2012

Erika Munson, founder of Mormons Building Bridges, is encouraging supportive Latter-day Saints to consider using the tithing settlement interview as “an opportunity to talk to your bishop about making your ward a more welcoming place for LGBT brothers and sisters.”

Ideas listed on the Mormons Building Bridges Facebook page include sharing the “Supportive Families, Healthy Children” brochure with bishops, asking them to organize a Fifth Sunday priesthood/Relief Society meeting built around LGBT issues, and for those living in the Wasatch Front, asking them to post in the ward’s bulletin board and newsletter announcements about the South Jordan Outreach Firesides.

Munson also suggests supporters share with their bishops a statement read by LDS spokesperson Michael Otterson in 2010: “This Church has felt the bitter sting of persecution and marginalization early in our history ... Our parents, young adults, teens and children should therefore, of all people, be especially sensitive to the vulnerable in society and be willing to speak out against bullying or intimidation whenever it occurs, including unkindness toward those who are attracted to others of the same sex.

“This is particularly so in our own Latter-day Saint congregations. Each Latter-day Saint family and individual should carefully consider whether their attitudes and actions toward others properly reflect Jesus Christ’s second great commandment -- to love one another.”

For a longer list of ideas, visit the Mormons Building Bridges Facebook page.