Calif. man becomes a pioneer for gay Mormons
(RNS) Mitch Mayne is not the first openly gay person to hold a key
leadership post within the all-volunteer clergy of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he may be the first to announce it from
the pulpit.
On Sunday (Aug. 28), Mayne was installed as the "executive
secretary" to the local Mormon bishop in San Francisco, a job that makes
him highly visible as he assists the bishop in nearly every task.
Mayne will work in the church's Bay Ward, or congregation, which
includes San Francisco's heavily gay Castro neighborhood.
