The Mormon Church has always had a bizarre fascination with homosexual behavior. Now, a “guidebook” written by Church leaders warning people about the evils of gayness and how to overcome it has leaked online.
The kinky 1981 document appeared on the Internet this week. In it, Church officials claim homosexuality can be “caused” by a number of things, including teenage masturbation.
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“Early masturbation experiences introduce the individual to sexual thoughts which may become habit-forming and reinforcing to homosexual interests,” the document reads.
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It continues: “Self-masturbation is almost universal among those who engage in homosexual behavior, and is a very difficult habit for most to overcome.”
The document goes on to explain that the filthy things young men think about whilst engaging in self-care are what really gets them hooked on the practice.
“The fantasies that attend this behavior are often the most powerful aspects of the act,” the document reads.
Other causes of homosexuality include: teenage gay sex (“Early homosexual experiences increase the possibility of future homosexual encounters”), a “disturbed family background”, child sexual abuse, and overbearing mothers.
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Most homosexual men, church officials say, are introduced to gay sex “in early childhood.” Meanwhile, lesbians tend to be later bloomers, taking their inaugural dips into the lady pond “in late teens or in the twenties.”
Most homosexuals are introduced to the behavior by someone “his own age or a few years older” and “almost always by someone they know.”
So what can be done about this very serious problem?
Well, officials say, lots of prayer. And lots of self-reflection. Repentance, of course. Oh, and maybe a little conversion therapy just for good measure.
“Homosexual behavior is learned and can be overcome,” the document reads. “To believe that immoral behavior is inborn or hereditary is to deny that men have agency to choose between sin and righteousness.”
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It continues: “The Lord has given man the freedom to make moral choices, and this agency is the cornerstone of his plan for exaltation.”
“You can use the assessment, counseling, and goal-setting materials in this booklet to help a member eliminate the problem.”
Those who cannot overcome their homosexual tendencies, church leaders say, must be immediately purged from the establishment.
“Persons who have engaged in homosexual activities and who have not totally repented and forsaken these evil practices will not be admitted to study at or be employed by any Church university, college, school, or program,” the document reads.
It continues: “Students or staff who engage in such behavior while involved with the Church Educational System will be dismissed. Procedures for dealing with missionaries who are involved in active homosexual practices in the mission field are the same as for those who commit adultery or fornication.”
The leaked document was shared by MormonLeaks, an anonymous non-profit whistleblowing website dedicated to exposing corruption, abuse, hypocrisy, and homophobic practices within the Church.
“The organization provides sources and whistleblowers the technical ability to anonymously submit sensitive documents for use by professional and citizen journalists for starting and expanding news reporting, public commentary, and criticism related to Mormonism,” MormonLeaks says.
No word yet from the Church on the leak.
Juanjo
Most homosexuals start out with masturbation? Really? Having shred a room with my very heterosexual brother and a cousin growing up, I believe the same can be said for heterosexuals.
crowebobby
Did you mean “shared” a room? Cause “shred a room is actually a better verb.
Kieran
As early as 1908, a Mormon church publication stated that blacks could not receive the priesthood because their spirits were less valiant in the pre-existence. Church leaders used this explanation until 1978, when Church President Spencer W. Kimball publicly refuted it.
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young reasoned that black skin was a result of the Curse of Cain or the Curse of Ham. They used these Biblical curses to justify slavery. Young believed the curse made black people ineligible to vote, marry white people, or hold the priesthood. Successive presidents continued to use the Biblical curses to justify excluding black men from the priesthood. The idea that black skin was a curse was not officially contradicted until 2013.
The moral of the story? Mormonism can “evolve” and eventually admit error.
JamJewel
I saw a naked man when I was four and realized that I liked what I saw. WOOPS! There goes that theory!
dwes09
Perhaps the regressive Kieran is LDS!! Here he is defending them because they eventually and grudgingly gave up their racism.
The faith is essentially 19th century Scientology: a hoax designed to fill the pockets of a charlatan. Based on a story even more ridiculous than the central myth of Christianity.
Magic rocks, magic hat, gold tablets that nobody ever actually saw, a race of white people who of course were more technologically advanced than the actual native Americans but left not a shred of archaeological evidence, magic protective underwear, Jesus flying to the new world that nobody in Jesus’ time even knew existed….
These people must have had some VERY good hallucinogens!
DCguy
LOL!!! Mormonism didn’t “Evolve”. Multiple schools like Stanford were going to boycott playing BYU over their policy of not allowing non-whites full church membership. Suddenly, when their wallet was going to be effected, the church leader had a “REVELATION”.
Although funny enough, they still have been busted multiple times trying to push racial minorities such as latinos into the “Spanish” wards even if they don’t speak Spanish.
More of the story….bigots will back down when $ or shame is involved.
msfrost
Gay is forever. Being LGBT, is a congenital condition. (developed before birth)
hansniemeijer
The first ever time I heard of this “religion” I thought the name was the Hormons. Well, there is something going on with their mental hormones!
1EqualityUSA
“Self-care”. Thirteen million people had better get accustomed to this concept when the GOP makes their insurance goes away. Why idiots vote for these regressive entities is beyond understanding.
Knight
The Mormons are just plain loopy…to say they are disconnected from reality is putting it mildly. My hypothesis is that the early ones were extremely dim-witted and gullible people who were easily manipulated (i.e. the “weak animals of the pack”). Today, we see the results after years of inbreeding and widespread evangelization around the world. When dealing with Mormons who have been so for generations, you get the sense they have an innate ability to turn their brains off when confronted with facts they don’t like. The ones that don’t seem to over-medicate.
1EqualityUSA
Bread kings.
DCguy
As opposed to Evangelicals who….oh wait, the same can be said of them.
He BGB
Annoying there is so much Mormon gay porn online when I type the search word Daddy. I like daddy porn but not when they’re pretending to be Mormon in that magic underwear. Is that supposed to be a turn on? Maybe it is for some so I say whatever blows your skirt up but I find it ANNOYING.