Same-Sex Marriage
Leaders are not to perform same-sex marriages. Building are not to be used for wedding/receptions/etc. associated with same-sex marriages.
Some thoughts on tolerance in the same-sex marriage debate.
The official site supporting 2008's California Proposition 8.
The official website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in support of 2008's California Proposition 8.
- Susan Golombok and Fiona Tasker, "Do Parents Influence the Sexual Orientation of Their Children? Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Lesbian Families", Developmental Psychology, 1996
"those from lesbian families were more likely to explore same-sex relationships"... interesting results on sexual orientation identification in adults raised by lesbians as well. (Even if statistically insignificant, due to the small sample size, it's suggestive and probably deserves follow-up.)
- Mark Regnerus, "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study", Social Science Research, Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 752–770
" In this debut article of the NFSS, I compare how the young-adult children of a parent who has had a same-sex romantic relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional, and relational outcome variables when compared with six other family-of-origin types. The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents. The results are typically robust in multivariate contexts as well, suggesting far greater diversity in lesbian-parent household experiences than convenience-sample studies of lesbian families have revealed."
- Mark Regnerus, "Queers as Folk: Does it really make no difference if your parents are straight or gay?", Slate, June 11 2012
Some commentary on his aforementioned research.
- Peter Sprigg, "New Study On Homosexual Parents Tops All Previous Research", Family Research Council
Further reporting on the same research. Some particularly dramatic discussion on rates of child molestation.
- D. Paul Sullins, "Invisible Victims: Delayed Onset Depression among Adults with Same-Sex Parents", Hindawi, 2016