My youngest son found a chance recently to have a private conversation with me about my views on same-sex marriage. Like many in his generation, he cannot understand why the Mormon church sees same-sex marriage differently than heterosexual marriage. But he didn’t know how to talk about this question to any of his current church leaders and he feared that if he did, he would be talked down to or worse—seen as a less devout member.
I loved the chance to talk to him honestly about doubts, as I have with all of my older children. It seems unreasonable to expect children growing up in the Internet age to have no doubts about Mormonism, and as a parent, I feel like one of my main jobs is to make sure they are comfortable talking to me about those doubts rather than trying to hide them and pretend they don’t have any.
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