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Date: November 04, 2017 10:34PM
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Hi No Name Provided,
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No Name Provided 7:10 PM
I am a gay. I am also Mormon. My child wants to be baptized when he turns 8. Will he be able to be baptized when he turns 8?
Heather 7:10 PM
Hi! Thank you so much for coming on to ask your question. In order to protect the child from being confused, if the parent is in a same-sex relationship then the child does need to wait until they are older before they are baptized. The Church does not want the child being taught one thing at church, and another thing at home. The church does not want to emotionally hurt the child since two different things are being taught in their life.
No Name Provided 7:13 PM
Who said anything about me being in a relationship? I am not presently in a relationship, but my My Ex is a convicted felon. He has a child who was allowed to be baptized. I didn't commit any crimes so heinous that my child should be denied blessings of membership in the church. Why is my Ex able to baptize his child and I am not allowed to baptize mine when I've never sinned the way he has.
Heather 7:13 PM
I was hypothetically speaking to a general circumstance.
No Name Provided 7:14 PM
So would my child be able to get baptized if I am gay?
No Name Provided 7:14 PM
I don't see what my relationship status has to do with my child's worthiness to be baptized or blessed.
Heather 7:15 PM
If the parent is teaching that marriage should be between and man and a woman then yes the child can be baptized. We do not want to confuse the child if the child see homosexual relations being portrayed in the home, but then goes to a church that that teaches that man and woman should be married. We do not want the child to be conflicted.
No Name Provided 7:18 PM
But you don't mind teaching the child that polygamous marriage is ok like God commands us to do still to this day in D&C 132:61?
Heather 7:18 PM
We actually don't practice polygamy.
No Name Provided 7:19 PM
I know we don't practice it, but it is still a part of MOmron doctrine. The Law of the Priesthood was never rescinded was it? We just quit practicing it so that the Feds wouldn't sieze all of our assets and allow UT to become a state, right? IT's not like the doctrine ever changed. It was just temporarily suspended,right?
Albina 7:20 PM
Here is a good quote from elder Christofferson that we like "Elder Christofferson said the Church policy is analogous to policy for children born to polygamist families.
Just as has been Church policy regarding polygamist families, children of parents in a same-sex relationship will need to assent to the doctrines and practices of the Church with regard to same-sex marriage before entering Church membership or missionary service, he said. They are “not disavowing their parents, but disavowing the practice,” he emphasized."
No Name Provided 7:21 PM
So why is it ok for the church to confuse our children by publishing a Law that commands them to practice plural marriage, but not ok with me sharing my opinion with them that there's nothing wrong with Gay Marriage?
Heather 7:21 PM
Doesn't that concern you that you child is going to be confused because you are teaching them one thing and the church is teaching them another thing? Are you really going to support your child in the church if you don't even believe what the prophets teach?
No Name Provided 7:22 PM
Yes. I don't accept a lot of things about Mormonism, like the Doctrine that plural marriage is a commandment of God, but I still call myself a Mormon, because of family ties and history.
Heather 7:22 PM
I guess our question is, why do you want you child to be baptized in a church that you think is false?
No Name Provided 7:24 PM
I didn't say I thought it was false, just badly misled in regards to giving people like me equal rights. To me its the same as their stand on blacks entering the temple, prior to 1978. They were dead wrong about that. It was racial discrimination. No other excuse. Same with gay marriage. The old guys at the top are just too stuck in their old fashioned ways to understand how bigoted it is to discriminate against the children of homosexuals. It's horrible.
But I still want my children to be Mormon. They're not all bigots are they?
I mean. I'm Mormon and I'm not a bigot. Niether are all of my gay Mormon friends.
I have a community there I can't find elsewhere.
Heather 7:28 PM
We agree. We don't think so either. This is just a tough subject. Elder Oaks got up in General Conference in October and said that same-sex marriage is not a policy change that is going to happen, because marriage between man and woman is an eternal doctrine. We completely understand why you feel hurt. I wish I better understood. All we are doing is trying to follow the prophets who we do believe that God has called.
No Name Provided 7:29 PM
Do you think the Prophets were right to discriminate against blacks by denying them entry to the temple prior to 1978?
Do you think the Prophets were right to marry their follower's wives and teenage children?
Heather 7:30 PM
We really can't say, because we did not live in that time, nor were we the prophets who were trying to figure these issues out.
We were not those who had to receive revelation if it was right at that time.
No Name Provided 7:30 PM
WHy did they deny blacks entry to the temple when you don't need the Priesthood to enter the temple?
Heather 7:30 PM
We do have to be going. We wish you the very best. Have a good night.
No Name Provided 7:31 PM
Women go all the time and none of have the priesthood, right?
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