The Devil Made Him Do It!

People who are attracted to members of their own sex can change, an LDS general authority said Saturday, so they shouldn’t let Satan persuade them they can’t.

Elder Bruce C. Hafen, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, spoke at the 19th annual conference of Evergreen International, a nonprofit group that helps Mormons “overcome homosexual behavior” and “diminish same-sex attraction.” The event was held at the LDS Church’s Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City.

Hafen promised attendees, “If you are faithful, on resurrection morning — and maybe even before then — you will rise with normal attractions for the opposite sex.”

Whenever the devil — whom Hafen referred to as “the adversary” — tries to “convince you that you are hopelessly ‘that way,’ so that acting out your feelings is inevitable, he is lying,” Hafen said. “He is the father of lies.”

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