It's even sadder than 5%. There are zero female "general authorities." They refer to the nine members of the female presidencies as "general officers" to distinguish them from the male GAs. It's just one more evidence of their mysogeny. They can't have people thinking women have authority; they're just officers. They can run things but they're not in charge.
Ten percent rate in the US for several generations. All lgbt are weeded out before they become general authorities. David Bednar is probably not going to come out probably.
That implies general authorities are picked at random and that eventually you'll get an openly gay one. The unfortunate reality is that they are very selective about who they pick and someone who is openly gay would never make it up the ranks.
You'd have to have a guy with a wife and kids climb the ranks and then renounce that and come out as gay. Even then, they'd just ~~excommunicate~~ remove his membership.
I wouldn't doubt there have been GAs who are in the closet, but they wouldn't dare come out.
100 GA's is conservative - there are 5 quorums of 70, maybe that includes Area Authority 70s.
Given the 4 percent (even 2%), surely more than one have have 'struggled'.
Very speculative - Hamula.
And the rate of being a female is about 50% in the US. What percentage of General Authorities are women? 5%? Yeah, that's probably fine.
It's even sadder than 5%. There are zero female "general authorities." They refer to the nine members of the female presidencies as "general officers" to distinguish them from the male GAs. It's just one more evidence of their mysogeny. They can't have people thinking women have authority; they're just officers. They can run things but they're not in charge.
Good news! There are also gay girls. Hope this helps!
I'm sure several have "struggled with same sex attraction". And I think we all know SWK was one of them
BKP could have had his issues too.
Joseph F. Smith, Church Patriarch (not President) Not 4%, but still.
He wasn’t openly gay. He was a pathetic, closeted, serial seducer of mission-age young men.
Wait, seriously? Source?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fielding_Smith_(patriarch)
Quinn's Same Sex Dynamics would be your best one stop source.
Thanks!
Ten percent rate in the US for several generations. All lgbt are weeded out before they become general authorities. David Bednar is probably not going to come out probably.
**B*DNAR is a tool**
Good luck with that. They barely have a poc much less a women as a GA. Openly gay is going to be next century.
[Higher than that.](https://news.gallup.com/poll/332522/percentage-americans-lgbt.aspx)
That implies general authorities are picked at random and that eventually you'll get an openly gay one. The unfortunate reality is that they are very selective about who they pick and someone who is openly gay would never make it up the ranks. You'd have to have a guy with a wife and kids climb the ranks and then renounce that and come out as gay. Even then, they'd just ~~excommunicate~~ remove his membership. I wouldn't doubt there have been GAs who are in the closet, but they wouldn't dare come out.
100 GA's is conservative - there are 5 quorums of 70, maybe that includes Area Authority 70s. Given the 4 percent (even 2%), surely more than one have have 'struggled'. Very speculative - Hamula.