{"id":2217,"date":"2015-11-08T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2015-11-08T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:39:15","slug":"mormon-church-change-blocks-children-of-same-sex-parents-from-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2217","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Church change blocks children of same-sex parents from baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past Thursday, the Mormon Church made a change to its practices that blocks all children of same-sex parents from receiving baptism in the church. The Mormon Church has long been opposed to same-sex marriage, and it was principal backer of several initiatives that sought to block same-sex unions in several states. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/religion\/2015\/11\/05\/mormon-church-no-baptism-children-same-sex-couples\">Advocate.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?A natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple is married or cohabiting, may not receive a name and a blessing,? reads the policy on baptism.<\/p>\n<p>Once those children reach age 18, they can be baptized and become church members if they stop living with parents who are same-sex 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<p>For apostasy, the penalty is up to and including excommunication, which is the severing of all ties to the church. Same-sex 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><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full new definition of apostasy can be read above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman This past Thursday, the Mormon Church made a change to its practices that blocks all children of same-sex parents from receiving baptism in the church. The Mormon Church has long been opposed to same-sex marriage, and it was principal backer of several initiatives that sought to block same-sex unions in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[460,459,101,461],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-baptism","tag-mormon-church","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-same-sex-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}