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Re: gay adoption
Many of the areas used as Family History Centres are simply rooms within the church buildings that comprise chapel and Sunday school rooms. The FH rooms are used for other purposes on other days of the week such as youth groups one evening, Sunday school classes on Sundays etc. Yes there is a separate building in Salt Lake City. There's even a separate building at Chorley although that is on church grounds adjacent to the chapel and temple but the majority are not.
The storage facility is in a mountain vault - it may have been superceded by computerised records by now but at one stage there were a lot of other records stored there too on behalf of others including the US governent because of the temperature and humidity levels.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be possible for the church to sever all connections with genealogical research but I can't see it being easy. Would any other organisation do it on a totally non-profit making basis staffed by volunteers?
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