Wow. I am sorry it has been so long since I have blogged, for a while I was unable to pull up any of my blogs and I thought they were gone forever.
Recently in the church there has been much talk of not allowing children who have gay parents get baptized. It has caused an uproar, many people are leaving the church because of this.
I just need to put in my two sense on this policy change.
If you have been a follower of this blog, you have read my conversion story, click here if you would like to read it. Now if you recall in my conversion process, I wasn't married yet, still living with my parents, and they weren't to keen on me getting baptized, they wanted me to wait another year to be baptized. I ended up only waiting 2 months, a factor that played a part in this, is that I was moving out of my house soon. If I wouldn't have known I was moving out soon, things may have played out differently.
Now it would be very difficult, even with parents that support you, to practice and be baptized into a faith, that your parents don't agree with. Some may not know, but when I was baptized, I was engaged, I had to have my fiances permission that he agreed it was okay for me to be baptized (he baptized me, so there wasn't really a problem there) If you are under 18, you have to have your parents permission to be baptized, a spouse has to have the other spouses permission to be baptized, this is all to keep the peace in the household. The church is still encouraging these kids to go to church and attend activities.
Have many of us really developed a true testimony for ourselves when we are 8 years old? Many converts I know have the strongest testimonies. They learned for themselves it was true, and aren't going off of their parents testimony.
As far as a blessing and a name, I'm not sure I totally stand by the church on this policy change.
My husbands aunt and her husband are catholic, she left the church when she was a teen. However, when her two sons were born, she had them blessed in the LDS church. Why can someone who has left the church, and doesn't believe it have their children blessed. Then why cant two men who are married and have an adopted child have their child blessed, willingly.
Just wanted to state my views on this new policy change. I will be back for more updates soon.
"Thus did Alma teach his people, that every man should love his neighbor as himself, that there should be no contention among them" Mosiah 23:15
