In response to Elder Russell M. Nelson and President Thomas S. Monson, two men I dearly love and who have helped me over decades of friendship, I would simply say the following: To deny the sacraments of the Mormon church to children of gay parents is a mortal sin worthy of excommunication. One of the articles of faith of the Mormon church states unequivocally that we are accountable for our own sins, no one else's. And I don't believe that being born gay is anyone's sin.