Fox news reported this morning that passport applications have been changed to be gay friendly. Instead of asking for parents of the applicant, they now ask for the name of parent one and of parent two. This pricked my brain a little bit and I wondered about birth certificates. There are a lot of babies born where the mother does not know whom is the father of her baby. How is that listed on the birth certificate? I suppose the words ‘unknown’ would be written on the line asking for the name of the father. Those that are adopted in the state of Utah, and probably most states, the adopters are listed as the parents on the birth certificate. It is easy to know who the mother is but there are times when no one knows who the father is.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints does proxy baptisms for their dead ancestors. Consider this scenario. A gay couple either male or female now adopts one or more children. Or in the event of female couple one or both of them become pregnant by artificial insemination using an oniminous sperm donor. Twenty or thirty years later a child of a gay couple, marries a person of the opposite sex. They have a family and their parents eventually die. After their parents are dead, the couple joins the Church. They go to the Temple and are sealed for all time and eternity. This presents a problem of being sealed to their parents. They may know who the mother is but they don’t know anything about a father. What is going to happen?
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