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Joanna Brooks is @askmormongirl of NPR and Politico (Top 50 Politicos) fame. She tweets on LDS issues in politics. She wrote earlier this year LDS don't teach they can become gods with their own planets.

She DOES NOT represent the LDS church. This is clear if you know what LDS issues she also campaigns for:

Despite clearly not representing SLC, she's picked to speak for Mormons. From her website:

[Joanna Brooks} has also been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, BBC’s Americana, Interfaith Voices, and Radio West. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and Killing the Buddha, and she has been utilized as a source on contemporary Mormonism by the New York Times, Reuters, Salt Lake Tribune, Washington Post, Salon, BBC Sky News, New America Media, Pittsburgh Gazette-Post, The Tennessean, Headline News Network, Fox News, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and the Deseret News.

Jeff? Saundra? Would you say Joanna speaks for you and the LDS Church? She's a long-time promoter of LGBT equality in the LDS Church. People are excommunicated for that, aren't they? I've read "no,' but Egnew, Pingree, Fales? Others?

One of the September Six, Maxine Hanks, was excommunicated for promoting feminism in the LDS church back in 1993. Wasn't she?

[2ndDivisionVet]

It surprises you that the Washington Post is a hotbed of homosexual activity and support?

[Jeff Head]

Never heard of her.

To my knowledge, she has not been asked by, or called by the Church to be any kind of spokes person, and she does not hold any regional or church wide position.

I do not know if she is even a member.

She certainly does not speak for me.

As to homosexuals in the church, they are counciled by their bishop and leadership to not commit fornication or any other sexual sin, they are counciled to adopt normal sexual relations within the bounds of matrimony and cannot be “married” in any kind of homosexual ceremony within the church.

If they continue openly in such a life style, ultimately a church court will be held and they can be disfellowshipped or ex-communicated depending on exactly what they are doing and what their attitude is about it.

If they have these inclinations, but live a life of cellibacy, then they can be active and received in full fellowship as long as they do not try and convince others that such a life style is “ok”, as long as they do not actively live or promote it.

The same would be said for someone committing fornication with persons of the opposite sex, or adultry...they would receive similar council and similar reaction/council/discipline from the church.

[Elsie]

Jeff? Saundra? Would you say Joanna speaks for you and the LDS Church?

When the PROPHET speaks; the thinking has been done.