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Welcome everyone and thank everyone for joining us so far on this podcast.

We again are discussing the, it's April 4, 2019.

I'm Dr. John DeLin and we are discussing the LDS Church's announcement today that they're

reversing the November 2015 policy which declared same sex marriage in active apostasy, putting

in a classification worse than murder, worse than incest, worse than rape, worse than all

those things, and also added insult to injury by prohibiting babies of same sex couples to

be blessed or babies of same sex, who have same sex parents to be blessed and be baptized

and receive the priesthood and pursue all the different milestones in the Mormon experience

and only allowed them to join the church at age 18 if they were announced the marriage

of their parents.

We're here to discuss the church's announcement three and a half years later undoing all

of those policy decisions.

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