The Church of LDS in fact officially changed its position, claiming revelation from God. The literature on this is pretty strong. You could start with RELIGION AND AMERICAN LAW: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA (Garland, not Routledge, 2000) (Paul Finkelman, ed.) which has a number of entries on the Mormon church and lots of bibliographic leads to other more complete sources.
Paul Finkelman Univ. of Tulsa College of Law Quoting Nelson Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jack Balkin wrote: > > > > . . . It is very unlikely that the Catholic Church is going > to change its views > > on homosexuality in the same way that the Mormon church > changed its views > > on polygamy. . . . > > > In what way has the Mormon Church "changed it views"? Has the > church > gone beyond a decision to submit, for the time being, to the > legal > prohibitions that the dominant culture insists upon? > > Nelson Lund > >
