Wow, the LDS church hierarchy are going after their own kids. That’s pretty vile.<\/p>\n
Not only are non-celebate LGBT people now going to be automatically “apostate” and called up for excommunication – there was a new announcement of policy about it, if you missed it here’s the link<\/a> – but they’re requiring children of LGBT couples to denounce their parents<\/eM> to stay in the church.<\/p>\n From the article linked above:<\/p>\n Under the new rules, a child of a same-sex couple may join the church only after age 18 by meeting these conditions: commits \u201cto live the teachings and doctrine of the church and specifically disavows the practice of same-gender cohabitation and marriage<\/b>\u201d; not live with a parent who is in a same-sex relationship; and receives approval from local church leaders and the church\u2019s First Presidency \u2014 the uppermost leadership of the church.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That’s that kind of family-denouncement shit that came out of the Khmer Rouge regime, and was encouraged by Stalin. Orwell<\/em> wrote about that in 1984<\/i>. I’m not even exaggerating, those are the other actual examples I can think of.<\/p>\n Well, that, and freaky fundamentalist cults which try to isolate members from other support systems, like their families. They do that sort of thing. Not that the Mormons have any history of that<\/em>.<\/p>\n Being queer but not mormon, this doesn’t directly affect me. I’m disappointed – no, repulsed – but I don’t take a direct hit here.<\/p>\n But nonetheless – how horrible.<\/p>\n\n
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