No One Should be Excluded

The parents of gay or transgender children are not divinely discharged of their responsibility to love and care for their children. Elder Cook teaches that the family is central to God's plan and every child should be loved and included in Latter-day Saint families. From MormonsAndGays.org.

Elder Quentin L. Cook
“The hardest thing that I had when I was stake president ... [was when] the medical community first became aware of AIDS ... as a Church nobody should be more loving and compassionate. No family who has anybody who has a same-gender issue should exclude them from the family ... Having children come into our lives is a part of Heavenly Father’s plan... let us be at the forefront in terms of expressing love, compassion, and outreach to those [attracted to the same sex] and let's not have families exclude or be disrespectful of those who choose a different lifestyle as a result of their feelings about their own gender. I’m sorry, I feel very strongly about this as you can tell. I think it’s a very important principle.”