The Mormom church recently updated their policies regarding members involved in same sex marriages to extend to the children of those couples. Children of same sex couples will be barred from blessings, baptism, ordaining of the priesthood, and other membership benefits until adulthood, and only if they no longer live with the parents and disavow same sex marriage and those who practice it before church leadership.
Why is this important?
I am the daughter of one gay couple and one heterosexual mormon couple, raised to respect others' lives and decisions, especially their religions, and to be loving and kind toward my fellow man. This petition seeks to reverse the senseless, discriminatory new policies adopted by church leadership regarding children of same sex couples. Children who are heterosexual themselves are barred from membership and full participation due to something they cannot control. It is hateful and discriminatory to bar anyone from membership for any reason beyond their personal control, including anyone of any sexual orientation and their potential children. I want the Mormon church to reverse the discriminatory rules they have recently adopted and open their church to any interested member, regardless of their family composition.
