Definitely not John Taylor being quoted. It is a character in a fictional conversation in a publication that came out long after John Taylor returned to America. This was almost 30 years before he became prophet of the Church. The context for the quote is also wrong.

But since the majority of Crystal’s readers don’t need all that fancy research stuff… In 1899 David O. McKay said that same-sex marriage was “not okay” and that the Church wasn’t a grass roots effort to get God to agree with us on stuff. Don’t get mad at me, I’m just quoting a prophet.

Hope Crystal will join me on the right side….but not of history.