This is the Official Announcement and can be found here.

“The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints related to marriage between a man and a woman is well known and will remain unchanged.

We are grateful for the continuing efforts of those who work to ensure the Respect for Marriage Act includes appropriate religious freedom protections while respecting the law and preserving the rights of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters.

We believe this approach is the way forward. As we work together to preserve the principles and practices of religious freedom together with the rights of LGBTQ individuals, much can be accomplished to heal relationships and foster greater understanding.”

I previously wrote a post titled “History Repeats” which can be found here that exposes the tenets of Faith regarding LGBTQ as an affront to God and that calling it a Sacrament is an opposition to God and a rejection of His image.

If the Church respected the marriage they would not endorse same sex unions as marriages. They would support them as same sex unions. To call it a marriage is to rewrite the ordinance, call it a holy sacrament and pervert the right way of God.

To call it marriage depicts abomination as a virtuous pursuit, counters the image of God and replaces the divine image with that of its own creation. It thus sets itself and its own fallible creation as the idol of worship. “They have professed themselves to be wise but are fools.” (Romans 1:22)

I will repeat here what I had previously written;

“Homosexuality is not just a rejection of the gospel, it’s a rejection of the image of God. Period. It is not just sin but a wicked act which declares in face of God; not just disobedience but superiority to Gods laws and openly mocks the heavenly union.”

This statement endorses same sex unions to be defined as marriages.

It should not be endorsed by any institution claiming to do Gods work.