translated from Spanish: From now on, the LDS Church allows to baptize children of LGBT couples

Thursday April 4 during the General Annual Conference N ° 189 of the LDS Church announced that, from now on, LGBT couples may baptize their sons and daughters in the institution. The measure was given unveiled by President Dallin Oaks in the event carried out in Salt Lake City.También known as the Church of Jesus Christ of the saints of the latter day, the entity considered that, to marry a person of the same sex a member of the Church engaged in apostasy.

“While we still believe that such marriages are a serious transgression, will not be treated as apostasy for purposes of discipline of the Church”, said in the statement issued today. To continue with a conservative stance towards LGBT couples, this Conference announced the return back with a policy launched in 2015 prohibiting boys and girls who live with same-sex couples undergo important religious practices , and receive blessings and baptisms.

From the official account of the Mormon Church, parafrasearon to its President, who said that these “efforts to show more understanding, compassion, and love should increase the respect and understanding among all people”. Consequences of the prohibition in 2015, after the announcement that limited the possibilities of Mormons LGBT within the Church, there was a wave of suicides among young people from the community aged between 14 and 20 years. The number, which for January 2016 had climbed to 32, was released by a group of Mormon mothers with sons and daughters homosexual who joined under the name of ‘Mama Dragons’. At the time, the newspaper The Deseret News, Salt Like city – owned by the Mormon Church – issued a statement regretting the deaths and the fact that “feel that life has no more hope to offer”.

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