Editing Community of Christ (section)

===LGBTQ participation===
The church is accepting of same-sex relationships.

For a period of time, the church under the presidency of W. Grant McMurray allowed the priesthood ordination of practicing homosexuals, something which he acknowledged was already occurring. The church would later halt this practice, prohibiting the ordination of sexually active homosexuals. However, the church allows those who were ordained against policy to continue in priesthood office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://welcomingcommunitynetwork.org/timeline.htm |title=Timeline: RLDS/Community of Christ and Sexual Orientation Issues |access-date=2008-06-03 |df=dmy-all |publisher=The Welcoming Community Network}}</ref>

In 2012, the Community of Christ held national conferences in Canada and Australia both of which recommended to church leadership to change standing policies regarding ordination to include those in same-sex marriage (Canada) and in marriage-like same-sex committed relationships (Australia), and in Canada to extend the sacrament of marriage to same-sex couples. Official policy changes for these nations have since been released that follow the recommendations of these conferences.

The Community of Christ's 2013 USA National Conference like those in Canada and Australia recommended changes. Those changes were recommended for the extension of the sacrament of marriage to same-sex couples in states where same-sex marriages are legal, the extension of covenant commitment services for same-sex couples in states where same-sex marriages are not legal, and extending eligibility for the priesthood call sacrament to all church members regardless of sexual orientation or open same-sex relationship. As a result of these recommendations, church leadership released in March&nbsp;2014 policy embracing the recommendations for the church in the United States.

Ireland and Great Britain held a special multi-nation conference in 2013 which also recommended changes to policy similar to those of Canada, Australia, and the United States. The changes have yet to be approved by the First Presidency and [[Council of Twelve Apostles (Community of Christ)|Council of Twelve]] for Ireland and Great Britain, with the likely time-frame to "develop, approve, and implement interim policies" being up to one year after the 2013 Conferences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cofchrist.org/USAconf/USANatlConf04-21-2013.pdf |title=USA National Conference Recommends Policy Changes |publisher=Community of Christ |date=21 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512142640/http://www.cofchrist.org/USAconf/USANatlConf04-21-2013.pdf |archive-date=12 May 2013 |quote=The 2013 USA National Conference recommends the sacrament of marriage be extended, where legal in the USA, to persons of the same sex/gender. ... The 2013 USA National Conference recommends allowing a priesthood call to be processed according to established procedures regardless of sexual orientation, including a person in a monogamous, committed, same-sex/gender relationship.&nbsp;...}}</ref>

A petition by the Australia Mission Centre Council to permit same-sex marriages was approved by the First Presidency in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_reo.htm |title=The Community of Christ (CoChrist) & homosexuality |website=ReligiousTolerance.org}}</ref>