OK but why is she a Mormon in the first place? She's only 7 so she clearly didn't convert on her own...meaning her gay parents must've raised her that way--why would any gay couple raise their kid as a Mormon?!
Quite frankly, why would any gay couple raise their child to be Christian. BUT. That's not the issue here. This is not a matter of yours or my personal preference here. People do raise their children in a religion that hurts them as individuals because sometimes people can rise above whatever is thrown their way, and yet in some cases the obsession religious bodies have over what their parents are is so venomous they even wish to poison their children by association.
Except the fact that these sort of rituals when done for children are almost always actually for the parents. If she was an adult and was clearly wishing to be baptized of her own free will then yeah that'd be really different, but as noted the policy doesn't extend to those 18 and over. If she was something like 16 then I'd probably agree that's old enough where it's clear one is doing it for themselves and not the parents. But 7? Nuh uh. Plus getting baptized in the LDS church and growing up with gay parents IS going to result in conflicting messages that I have no clue why anyone would ever want to bestow on a kid and that a 7-year old doesn't understand at this point.
Weirdly enough I think you'd actually AGREE with my position against this type of indoctrination against people too young to understand it. This is the sort of choice people should make for themselves when they are old enough. A 7-year old who grows up with gay parents and turns out liberal at 18 is likely to be horrified and disgusted with the LDS church and want nothing to do with it, so it's unfair to put them in it in the first place at an age where they can not truly consent. I'm sure there's plenty of adult atheists around Utah who sure wish they had never been baptized in the LDS church.
