‘I couldn’t believe it was true’ — prominent LGBTQ Latter-day Saint looks back at 2015 policy and strides and missteps since

Six years ago this month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints instituted a policy labeling same-sex married couples “apostates” and barring their kids from baptism. The policy later was abandoned, but the pain among LGBTQ members and their allies has persisted.In these excerpts from The Salt Lake Tribune’s “Mormon Land” podcast, Tom Christofferson, a prominent LGBTQ member and author of “That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith