In a Q&A session, the LDS apostle was quizzed on an array of issues, including declining membership growth in the Utah-based church, LGBTQ issues, female leaders, and the faith’s depiction in recent media.
to nearly 100 reporters at the prestigious venue and others watching online, Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gave an overview of the faith’s beliefs and actions across the globe.membership in a number of places, Bednar said, “If you look at the church in the aggregate, it is growing, which, in the climate we find today [when most churches are shrinking], is rather newsworthy.
• When asked about whether he could ever envision the church allowing LGBTQ couples to wed or be “sealed within the church,” the 69-year-old apostle did not directly respond but simply restated the faith’s position on marriage — that it is between a man and a woman, which is “ordained of God.” This is “not new. Christ was mischaracterized,” he said. “We have been mischaracterized since 1830, when the church was established. … I don’t think it will ever go away. We don’t like it, but we don’t spend all of our time trying to respond to it.”
• To a question about whether there will ever be a female president of the church, Bednar said, “We follow the pattern of the ancient church. … The pattern anciently was that the apostles were men.”
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