LDS Church Officials Cancel Meeting with LGBT Mormons

Quelle Surprise! Officials at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon Church) have now cancelled a previously announced meeting to be held with gay Mormons next month.

Latter Day Saints President Thomas S. Monson agreed to a meeting in April with leaders of Affirmation, an organization for LGBT members of the LDS church, Fred Riley, commissioner of family services for the LDS, and Harold C. Brown, the agency’s past commissioner.

Affirmation had sought such a meeting for several years. It was to have taken place Aug. 11.

But in a letter to Affirmation, Riley suddenly called off the discussion, noting he was preparing to leave his position and that the meeting would best be handled by his successor, who has not yet been named.

“We feel badly about this, but believe that for this to be the best experience for all parties and to ensure appropriate consistency and continuity of the process, it would be best to postpone the meeting until the new commissioner is named,” Riley said in the letter.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm.