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Mormon officials said the goal was to provide clarity to lay leaders who run congregations. The revisions triggered a wave of anger, confusion and sadness for a growing faction of LGBT-supportive Mormons who were buoyed in recent years by church leaders' calls for more love and understanding for LGBT members. The changes to the Mormon handbook - disseminated this week to local church leaders around the world - say being in a same-sex marriage warrants ousting from the religion and that children of gay parents must wait until they're 18 and disavow homosexual relationships to be baptized. But Elder Christofferson pointed to a precedent for the changes, citing similar policies regarding children from polygamous families.
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The decision came as a shock to those who have commended the church on their recent support of LGBT rights in housing and employment.
I think it's not what we should be doing as a church.
Todd Christofferson said in a video released by the Mormon Newsroom." It's tone deaf.It's a matter of a firm policy that doesn't allow for question or doubt," Elder D. … It's a matter of understanding right and wrong.
The church later confirmed the policy changes." With the Supreme Court's decision in the United States there was a need for a distinction to be made between what may be legal and what may be the law of the church.
According to a document posted by an LGBT advocate and excommunicated member of the church, children of same-sex couples - married or not - won't be allowed to be ordained or do missionary service until they have denounced their parents' behavior and get special permission from church leaders.The Mormon church is defending a new policy that says children of same-sex couples can’t be baptized members of the church until age 18.
Earlier this week, The Salt Lake Tribune reported on leaked policy changes being made to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Handbook 1 - a widely distributed guide for leaders of the church.