His analysis, based on years of research, will likely surprise you.
The second week of January my wife and I were invited by a long time close friend of Mike Quinn’s to attend a discussion about this topic. That evening he said to this group much of what he said in the Salt Lake Tribune Mormon Land Podcast but had time to give more detail and take questions. Mike offers valuable insights to this interesting topic. And he comes to this as one of the most respected Mormon history scholars of all time. Mike is a former BYU professor who happens to be gay and excommunicated and yet still holds to the basic tenets and foundational stories of the faith. But not the church’s stand on LGBTQ issues. He presented at Faith Again several years ago.