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Gays who are interested in help from the hoaoseroslb like the Quaker deciding the moral standards for a Mormon polyga-nust- ," church are encoureed to "seek competent the same man writes in a pamphlet treatment and counseling in an effort to called Prologue: An Examination of the turn their lives around and overcome a crippling habit," LeFevre said. "This is Mormon Attitude Toward Homosexuality. An instructor at the University of Utah's done both through counseling by local LDS Institute of Religion admits more priesthood leaders and, if the afflicted is information about homosexuality is willing, through professional treatment." LDS Social Services, where many gay desperately needed for church members to be more sympathetic to the plight of gays. Mormons go for counseling, declined the The instructor, who asked not to be Chronicle's request for an interview. named, said church officials who flatly call LeFevre said statistics about the number of who have received counsel through homosexuality a spiritual malady and gays available and psychiatrists who dismiss the condition as the church program are not confidential be would in any case. kept only one option among many each close the Gays in the Salt Lake community scoff door on further exploration. "We need to be careful about pouncing at claims that church programs "cure" on solutions because we know so little . anyone of homosexuality. "I know a guy who is 38 years old who about homosexuality," he said. "Much has been trying since he was 21 to be cured needs to be. done by way of professional, disciplined research." The same instructor said it may be good for LDS church members to take note of in criticism that they are not Christian-lik- e their everyday attitudes toward gays. " Unloving behavior in the name of love is a terrible irony of religious ethics. The whole point of the life of Jesus Christ was to help us avoid that paradox." therapy, is not one of them. Shock treatment was reportedly used by a small number of people at Mormon owned LTrigham Young University in the 1970s. The treatment, described in an article published in the variety of therapeutic approaches in helping those with homosexual tendencies or behavior, but aversion, or shock FRESHMEN ct heterosexual and homosexual members. "I don't see any difference between the situation of a gay person who doesn't practice his homosexuality and a man who hasi't had sex with his wife in 10 years or a woman in the church who 40-year-- old hasn't yet married. WAEXOSGTDN (UTfh-J-bt Suptece Court, ruling in a key age bias case, held 9-- 0 Tuesday that airline pilots over 60 have the right to transfer to a lower cockpit job regardless of age. paying ' The ruling involves Trans World Airlines pilot transfer policy, but also affects several other airlines with similar lawsuits pending. Employers generally will examine die ruling for guidelines on handling the growing number of age discrimination lawsuits filed by an increasingly older workforce. are wrong, very wrong, said Boyd K. Packer, a general authority of the Mormon Church, in a lecture on homosexuality to Utah college students in 1978. At least this much seems true: For every person who has qualms about strong "The request of religion to gay members indictments against homosexuality (like (to live a sexually pure life) is no different Packer's statement) there is another who than the request is of everyone," the remains grateful there are religious leaders counselor said. bold enough to embrace traditional values "Even one who is spiritually immature and deal with troublesome issues ought intuitively to sense that such actions succinctly. ADD-A-CLA- of his homosexuality," says Dion France, a U. of U. student who grew up as a Mormon in Coalville, Utah. But the friend admits he still is as gay as ever. "He even subjected himself to shock therapy.' LeFevre said church programs use a now-defun- student newspaper, Seventh East Press, involved mild electric stimulus used in conjunction with slides of males and females. But there is no evidence to suggest the Mormon Church currently condones or uses the treatment. 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