Kevin Kloosterman is a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. A bishop in the LDS is the leader of a local ward (congregation), not the equivalent to a bishop in the Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, or Methodist traditions. Still, this is the first formal apology to the LGBT community from a Mormon religious leader I've seen. It's a personal apology, not an apology in which he speaks for the institution.
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You and I know that I can’t speak on behalf of the church tonight, but I can
speak on behalf of myself. I want to tell you, if you leave here not
remembering anything I have to say, remember this: I’m sorry. Deeply, deeply
sorry.
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Over the past year, I have felt promptings from the Spirit that I needed to
learn all I could about these issues. To listen, finally, to many of your
stories. Some of them I’ve read in books. Some of them I’ve read on the
Internet. And as I took the time to listen and as I took the time to learn, I
began to have a mighty change of heart.
But it was not without some pain. As you know very well, the stories that have
been written, your own stories, are extremely painful. Some have called it a
tragedy. I call it an atrocity, what has happened. And as I read these stories
and as I learned more about these issues, I began to see the emotional wounds
and the scars that many of you still have today. And I seem to ask the
question, “Where did you get these wounds?” and unfortunately the answer was,
“In the house of my friends.”
Religion Dispatches features an interview:
How did you come to be involved in the Circling the Wagons event?
Over the last year, I was feeling promptings from the Spirit to learn more about LGBT issues. I’ve never had to deal with that issue with myself, in my immediate family, in my extended family, or as a bishop. I have no close friends at all who are gay or lesbian. I really just felt the Spirit prompt me that I had to learn and listen and read more. Reading and learning started to change my heart. I had ignorance and fear about these issues. I never acted out in hateful ways but I always felt like we needed to defend marriage and the family. Then, I began to realize that my marriage and my family were not under attack by gays and lesbians. I came to realize that they were suffering much, much more than my concerns over marriage and family. Then, I heard about the three recent attacks on gay men in Utah, and when I heard that one of them basically got his jaw broken on the side of a curb, something inside me . . . my heart broke. I realized that I could no longer sit on the fence, or shake my head and walk on the other side of the road, like a Levite or a priest, but I needed to be a good Samaritan. I feel that covenant I made at baptism to take upon myself the name of Christ.