The New LDS Policy on Baptism: Yes, thanks for asking, I am in fact ashamed of this new policy of their's.

Preface: I used to be a Mormon.  I was raised with Mormon doctrine and was expected to carry out a Mormon lifestyle. I believe in equality, now, however, among other things, and as a result, could not continue to surround myself with the religious doctrine of this church.  Leaving the church and the thought habits I was raised within

Mormons, or, the LDS, address and celebrate emotional and spiritual progression through the act of Baptism. For a member of the LDS church, this baptism, marks a key step in coming to terms with particular aspects of the community's shared beliefs of reality. This singular event in one's religious growth acts as an access point to which greater bodies of knowledge and social experience become available.

Until now, for children reared within this faith, this opportunity for communal and emotional growth has never been restiricted to anyone over the especially appointed age of 8, An age, might I add, that has been the norm on account of God specifying it in the doctrinal blueprints he gave to Joseph Smith in the 1800's, during one of their Chats*. In fact, Baptisms are generally timed to coincide with the child's birthday, as it is quite a substantial event in the life of a Mormon child. Trust me, I once was one.

*https://www.lds.org/friend/2000/02/the-age-of-accountability-why-am-i-baptized-when-i-am-eight-years-old?lang=eng

A very recent and, might I add, clever interpretation of sacred doctrine, however, has just announced that unless you're a man having sex with a woman, and unless you're a woman having sex with a man, you are not, I repeat, ARE NOT allowed to involve your offspring in the same spritually inaugoral event as the offspring of those female/male combination-type parents. Why? Because clearly, with you same-gendered parents rainsing the child, the child cannot possibly learn the right values and understandings that they would undoubtedly have learned from all the mult-gendered parents; Multi-gendered parents have been getting it right for years, clearly.

The result of this genderist, ability-judgement festival, is that children aged 8 BUT who belong to same-gendered parents, aren't welcome to traditional Baptism anymore, unlike the boring, multi-gendered parent-style kids.  They now get to wait until they are adults, as, hilariously enough, adults have a more cognititvely developed method of informed decision making. Hm. Uuntil now, children at the age of 8 were deemed responsible enough to make the informed choice to be baptized, as they are assumed to understand that "baptsim washes away all of your sins", amongsts other things, generally.

 I will never pretend to, for the sake of religious respect, pasively accept such a blatant display of disrespect for felllow human beings as the Mormon church is displaying presently.  Selectively enforced exclusion in matters of individual growth and community acceptance is an expression of intolerance and reflects a severe lack of education with regards to the rearing of children by same-genderd parents. While I myself disagree with the notions of holiness associated with this baptismal ristual, but I understand that for those who don't, it's a crucial and  joyfully anticipated time. I am outraged that the church has sunk so far as to segregate the rights of children in the care of loving, parents purely for the sake of their reproductive organs not lining up like they would like them to.

Segregation is bigger than religion and it needs to come to an absolute end.