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Under the new policy you can’t go on a mission until you disavow what, exactly? Your homosexual parent’s legal marriage, or cohabitation without marriage, or sex without sharing of home, or dating? Good question. Don’t know if I have the exact answer. And I don’t know if all stake presidents actually know either. The handbook is not clear. Is it it just a statement that I don’t agree with my one parent’s actions or that they are so bad they are worthy of being labeled apostates? What kills me is that the peer of one of these kids is OK by the church, according to Elder Christopherson, to be vocally in favor of gay rights/marriage (as long as they are not advocating for the church to change). So why is one kid allowed to fully participate with a view that in one way is counter to what the church teaches and another REQUIRED to take the exact opposite position to fully participate?
:crazy: Makes NO sense.I don’t know how this will work either, but it makes no sense to me. It must be pretty important, however, because it seems to me that this was the rationale that Elder Christopherson gave in his clarification interview for requiring children of SSM couples to be 18 before “disavowing” the practice. The church didn’t want to put children in the position of disavowing their parents’ lifestyle at age 8, so they needed to wait until they are 18, just like the children of polygamous parents have to do. I’m really bothered by this policy for two main reasons:
1. A member in good standing does not need to disavow the practice of SSM. Why should a child of SSM parents have to do so?
2. We don’t deny children of parents who have committed other serious sins (ie. murder, rape, birth out of wedlock, adultery, etc.) to be blessed or baptised, yet alone “disavow” their parents’ sins. Only for polygamy and SSM.
For me, this is a policy of men (or heavily influenced by legal counsel and existing policy for children of polygamists) and is not of God. I don’t think the brethren have given us the real reason for this policy and that really bothers me too.
Family is the cornerstone of LDS culture. How does a person “disavow” parents while maintaining loving family relationships?
How is genealogy done when a person is adopted by a same-sex couple?
So many questions .. No answers.
FaithfulSkeptic wrote:A member in good standing does not need to disavow the practice of SSM. Why should a child of SSM parents have to do so?
My fear is that in very short order, it’s going to work backwards. “You’re right; it’s an uneven expectation. Now all members will be required to disavow.” Disavow what? “Well, let’s just simplify and say all members must disavow homosexual relations on any level and in every form.”
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