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Mormon Church: No Baptism for Children of Same-Sex Couples<\/b><\/p>\n

The Mormon Church has long been staunchly opposed to same-sex<\/a> marriage, but Thursday the church took this up a notch.<\/p>\n

In an update to its leadership manual, the church announced that it would deny baptism<\/a> to children of same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a>, and for the first time listed same-sex marriage<\/a> under the definition of apostasy — the rejection of church teachings, reports Salt Lake city’s KUTV.<\/p>\n

“A natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple<\/a> is married or cohabiting, may not receive a name and a blessing,” reads the policy on baptism.<\/p>\n

Once those children reach age 18, they can be baptized and become church members if they stop living with parents who are same-sex<\/a> relationships and take a position opposing such relationships, although this would still require approval of the top church governing body, known as the First Presidency, KUTV reports.<\/p>\n

For apostasy, the penalty is up to and including excommunication, which is the severing of all ties to the church. Same-sex<\/a> marriage will now be listed alongside other actions already considered apostate, such as joining another church and advocating its teachings, or repeatedly advocating any teaching contrary to Mormon doctrine.<\/p>\n

A screen shot<\/a> of the expanded apostasy definition was posted online today, and a church spokesman confirmed to KUTV that it is accurate, along with the policy on baptism of children. Both measures go into effect immediately.<\/p>\n

“It is an unfortunate move by the church today,” Randall Thacker, president of Affirmation, <\/a>a group for LGBT Mormons and their allies, told The Advocate. <\/em>Neither policy had been codified previously, he said. “It does feel like they’re cutting us further off from the community.”<\/p>\n

Thacker said these actions will be “incredibly emotionally damaging” to LGBT Mormons, especially young people just coming to terms with their sexuality, and to parents seeking to support LGBT children.<\/p>\n

On the baptism policy, he said, “I do not understand the Jesus Christ who would deny baptism to a child based only on the status of his parents, and I am confounded that a church bearing his name would do so.” The church’s official name is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a>, he noted, have brought up children in the LDS Church.<\/p>\n

The actions, he added, come after some conciliatory moves by the church, such as supporting an LGBT-inclusive antidiscrimination law<\/a> in Utah and setting up an outreach website called MormonsAndGays.org.<\/a> The site, however, repeats the official church teaching that while “same-sex<\/a> attraction” is not a sin, acting on it is. As for transgender people, the church frowns on gender transition.<\/p>\n

The actions also come in a week when a new study indicated that rank-and-file Mormons are becoming more accepting of homosexuality. The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study,<\/a> released Tuesday, found that in 2014, 36 percent of Mormon respondents said homosexuality should be accepted by society, up from 24 percent in a corresponding 2007 study. But only 26 percent of Mormon respondents in the 2014 study supported legal same-sex<\/a> marriage; the question was not asked in 2007.<\/p>\n

Thacker added that his purpose with Affirmation “is to help people find a positive path forward in their lives.” With moves like today’s, he said, that path for LGBT people is more and more likely to be outside the LDS Church.<\/p>\n

Trudy Ring<\/p>\n

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