David O. McKay reportedly stated that homosexuality was "worse than immorality" and a "filthy and unnatural habit."
- Type
- Manuscript
- Hearsay
- 2nd HandReprint
- Reference
Ernest L. Wilkinson private journal, May 21, 1959, photocopy in Wilkinson Collection, Marriott Library, University of Utah
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- Transcription
These two problems interested the Brethren very, very much (they of course concern themselves more about these matters than some of the technical problems of education), and so we had a long discussion on them. I was informed that President McKay in one of the Temple meetings had said that in his view homosexuality was worse than immorality; that it is a filthy and unnatural habit. I was therefore instructed that whenever we had cases - of this kind, except where the students were really repentent and immediately
Thursday, May 21, 1959 (Cont'd)
working out their problems, that we should suspend them from the University.
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