About 1,500 Mormons resign from church in protest of same-sex policy
About 1,500 Latter-day Saints have submitted letters of resignation from the Mormon Church to protest a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults, movement organizers said on Sunday.
More than 1,000 people gathered on Saturday near the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to protest the policy they see as discriminatory and harmful to families, with many standing in long lines to submit their resignations, they said.
A similar protest called "The Utah Rally for Love, Equality, Family and Acceptance" is set for next Saturday in the same area.
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints approved the policy this month. It added same-sex marriage to acts considered to be a renunciation of the Mormon faith and thus subject to church discipline, including excommunication.
"It is difficult for people to leave the Church. It takes people a long time to make this decision. It is a well-thought-out one and it is not taken lightly," said Brooke Swallow, one of the organizers of the Saturday protest."
*The new church policy bars children of gay married couples from being baptized in the faith until they turn 18, leave their parents' home and disavow same-sex marriage or cohabitation.
Church leaders elaborated on Friday, saying the withholding of baptism would apply only to children whose primary residence was with a same-sex couple. "
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/15/us-utah-mormons-samesex-idUSKCN0T414G20151115
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...is seriously sick...beyond sick. Keeping children out of their flock because they believe their gay parents are sinners???
Oh, I wish I had a bigger 
emoticon! 
To hell with the Mormon "church" -- come out of the closet and admit you are a cult, OK?
