Certainly the decision wasn’t based ONLY on factors like their parents race, sexual orientation or marital status?

Can someone explain exactly what inherent disability same gender couples possess that obviates responsible decision making for their own families? Why can Catholic parents make responsible blessing and baptism decisions for their children and Mormon parents cannot? There must be thousand of examples one can point too, just 2 or 3 will do.

Any other child’s parents can break every one of the 10 commandments and that child can get baptized at age 8. A child of a Catholic, Methodist, Satanist or atheist can have their child baptized at 8, but a legally married same sex couple cannot?

Why is same-sex marriage considered “apostasy” but same-sex cohabitation is only a “transgression”?

Why does the Handbook of Instruction distinguish between same-sex cohabitation and marriage but refer to polygamous relationships as “marriages”? Was this intentional prophesy?

Why can an infant with a parent who has practiced polygamy be named on church records and receive a blessing but an infant with a parent who has practiced same-sex cohabitation or marriage cannot?

Why can minors with a parent who has practiced polygamy receive approval to be baptized and become church members but there is no such exception for minors with a parent who has practiced same-sex cohabitation or marriage?

In short, why is the Church coming down so hard on same-sex families than on polygamist families? What is the social or doctrinal motivation?

“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven;’ and He laid His hands upon them and blessed them. ALL little children, NO matter what their parentage may be, are innocent in the sight of heaven, and THEY should be RECEIVED as such and BLESSED as such.” – LDS Apostle George Q. Cannon

Regarding same gender marriage “Pope Francis said that priests should NOT refuse baptism to anyone who asks for the sacrament. Speaking in a homily Sunday for the ordination of 19 new priests for the diocese of Rome, Francis told the new ministers: “With baptism, you unite the new faithful to the People of God. It is NEVER necessary to refuse baptism to someone who asks for it.”- National Catholic Register

The problem I have with your response is this; ROMANS 8:6-7; 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: God gave us a heart where spiritual matters are understood, our brain is part of the carnal body which is of the earth and will never understand matters of the Spirit. Only God can judge this issue and I have not heard our leaders say, that they have inquired of the Lord in any matter for many years. Perhaps you should go back to Genesis and read how God created man: GENESIS 1:27; 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — GENESIS 5:2; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called “their” name Adam, in the day when they were created. (He called “their” name Adam and He created him, male and female? Only God knows and no one, has the power or ability to judge on this matter!! (Judge not least ye shall be judged!) Just my heart felt opinion.

Hear, hear. The Church has made it crystal clear that Supreme Court (mis)decisions, especially on the legality of same-sex so-called ‘marriages’ and the duty of states to certify them (as bad as Roe v. Wave was in ’73), does not change what the Lord has said regarding marriage.

I suspect that if there were any legal difficulties should a gay couple be miffed at being rebuffed having their ‘marriage’ solemnized by an LDS bishop or similar, and especially to not be performed in the Temple, that IF somehow the Church came out on the ‘losing’ end (at least in mortality) of a legal tussle, the certifications of Church officials to perform marriages would be withdrawn and/or any Temple(s) affected would be closed, rather than give in. Again, I don’t ‘steady the Ark’, just musing based on what I’ve seen in almost 37 years of Church membership.

When said “inclusion” would inflict more harm on that child in that peculiar situation. I highly doubt that the minor children of same-sex households are battering down the doors of LDS meetinghouses, clamoring to be baptized. Would that were so! Get off your high horse, dear. The Good Lord gave us all brains to “come, let us REASON together”. This is as much nonsense as the so-called “peace” activists (in reality, advocates of foolhardy unilateral disarmament) who decry those that say “in times of peace, prepare for war” (e.g., prepare for war and more likely the enemy leaves you alone, so you do have “peace”). This policy, being the same as for children raised in polygamous households, shows common sense. What I don’t understand is why also children who are living in a heterosexual ‘shackup’ situation weren’t also subjected to this policy, since likewise they’re being ‘misled’ by their parents implicit example as to marriage vs. the Church. But I find that it’s best to not ‘steady the Ark’, so I’ll let the Church decide if and when it should proceed as I suggest.

The second possible reason for the changes would be a doctrine decision. I do not believe that mortals make doctrine changes.

There is a bright and distinct line between feelings, opinions, and behavior of mortals and the truth.

A different of thinking of the Lord’s commandments is that these are the truths that he has revealed to us. To the extent that we understand them we should obey them.