A Deseret News report, 5 November 2015, on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' handbook update classifying a member's same-gender marriage as apostasy requiring a disciplinary council and restricting the naming, blessing, baptism, confirmation, ordination and missionary service of a child living with a parent in a same-gender relationship.
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Reliability Tier2
Deseret News is owned by the church's own Deseret Management Corporation, so it sits closer to the church's own voice than an outside outlet, but it is a staffed newsroom rather than the church's own First Presidency statement, so tier two rather than tier one. Its account of the 5 November 2015 handbook change matches CNN's and the Salt Lake Tribune's independent contemporaneous coverage of the same policy change. NotesReports the 5 November 2015 handbook update: a member's same-gender marriage was added as a circumstance requiring a disciplinary council, formally treated as apostasy; a natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship could not receive a name and a blessing, and could not be baptized, confirmed, ordained or recommended for missionary service until reaching legal age, no longer living with the same-gender-relationship parent, and disavowing the practice of same-gender cohabitation and marriage, with First Presidency approval required even then.
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PublisherDeseret News
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://www.deseret.com/2015/11/5/20576115/lds-church-reaffirms-doctrine-of-marriage-updates-policies-on-families-in-same-sex-marriages/
Source Typejournalism
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