Is appointment of new LDS apostle a hint that church is doubling down on LGTBQ doctrine?

Across social media, church’s progressive members criticize his selection

Clark Gilbert speaks at a conference in Apia, Samoa, in 2024. Photo copyright by Intellectual Reserve.

Clark Gilbert has been an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints¹ less than a week, yet he is already the most controversial person in that position for the past 40-some years.

Gilbert, who as the denomination’s education commissioner …