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Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by GuiA on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:28AM (#8469683)
Right, but if you drew a graph where nodes are humans and edges are links of genetic parentship, then you can build a complete graph without having to be aware of gay relationships.

There's nothing morally wrong or right about this statement, it's just a mathematical property of a very particular social graph.

Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by rmc on Friday October 17, 2014 @06:23AM (#8470202)
Family Trees (& software) support adoption. The "genetic only" horse bolted long ago. Why support adoption for different sex couples but not same sex couples?
Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by GuiA on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:34PM (#8472175)
Sure, but I wasn't speaking for family trees in the social sense of the word. Of course these should include same sex adoption.

There are definitely uses for a genetic only tree, eg for medicine.

Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by troels on Friday October 17, 2014 @05:06AM (#8470050)
Depends on what exactly it is you want to map. From a purely genetic perspective you're right, but being a parent is certainly more than just contributing sperm/eggs. And besides - it's very hard to know if someone is indeed the biological father of a child, without resorting to dna testing. Who's the mother tends to be a bit more accurate, although that's also something that could be faked.
Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by jeremysmyth on Friday October 17, 2014 @04:24AM (#8469944)
A complete graph (by some definition of "complete") documents the knowledge of who both parents are, and there are many situations where you cannot get such knowledge for practical or legal reasons.