From now on, the Mormon Church allows children of LGBT couples to be baptized

This Thursday, April 4, at the Annual General Conference No. 189 of the Mormon Church it has been announced that, from now on, LGBT couples can baptize their sons and daughters in the institution. The measure was announced by President Dallin Oaks at the event that was held in Salt Lake City.

Also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the entity found that by entering into a marriage with a person of the same bad, the member of the Church was to be apostatized.

"Although we still consider that such marriages are a serious transgression, they will not be treated as apostasy for the purposes of church discipline," they said in the statement released today. 39; hui.

Although they retain a conservative stance on LGBT marriages, this conference announced the back with a policy launched in 2015 which prohibited children living with same-bad couples from submitting to well-known religious practices, such as receiving baptisms and blessings.

According to the official account of the Mormon Church, they paraphrased their president, who badured that these "efforts to show more understanding, compbadion and love should increase respect and understanding among all peoples ".

Consequences of the ban

In 2015, after the announcement limiting the opportunities of LGBT Mormons within the Church, a wave of suicides occurred among youth in the community aged 14 to 20 years.

The number, which in January 2016 had risen to 32, was broadcast by a group of Mormon mothers with gay sons and daughters gathered under the name "Mama Dragons".

At the time, the newspaper The Deseret News, Salt City Like – Mormon church property – issued a statement deploring the dead and the fact that they "feel that life no longer has hope to offer them" .