WE WARN that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.
WE CALL UPON responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.
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From the Proclamation on the Family, published in 1995
http://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation
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I fear Mormons will be among the first to have their church tax exempt status revoked when they refuse to perform gay marriages. Hopefully, all other conservative denominations will come out with similar statements in short order.
Sorry, after their recent capitulation that forced the Boy Scouts to open the door to homosexuality, the LDS church is simply not credible on this issue.
The time for action by all God fearing men is here. Obey the government or obey God’s commandments. It’s your choice of peril for disobedience. As for me and my house, we will obey God.
I thought it was an announcement that plural marriages in the LDS church were to begin again- immediately!
Like em or don’t the Mormons have called out the court on its mamby pamby ruling that allowed it to do nothing and completely ignore the voters in the state
The obvious democratic solution should apply. Support candidates for governor of California who *will* support referendums in the federal courts. Not just Prop 8, either.
For example, the California legislature hates and fears the referendum imposed term limits placed on them. But right now, were a single Democrat to challenge those term limits, it would go to federal court, and Jerry Brown would not defend them.
In effect, this means that by not granting standing to other than the governor of a state, referendum ceases to exist, as soon as a governor is in office that opposes it.
Other popular referendums that can be overturned this way?
Medical marijuana, tax limits, you name it. The people can vote for it, and the governor can overturn the votes of the people.
Ping
Irrevocably committed???
(Eye rolling time)
Lds third "prophet" John Taylor used to tell the Mormon faithful how committed they were to their stance on marriage (which happened to be polygamy) in the 1880s? (How long did that last, practice wise...By the first decade of the 20th century, only a handful of secret polygamous unions were still being solemnized by Lds leaders.)
And in the 1860s and 1870s...when some Mormon leaders were saying that polygamy was better than monogamy...because it pre-empted a penchant for prostitution...how "irrevocably committed" was the Mormon church to the institution of monogamy then?
And...given that the Mormon church STILL endorses "eternal" polygamy by claiming that multiple temple weddings/sealings to multiple spouses = eternal polygamy...what kind of a wink-wink, nod-nod "commitment" is that to monogamy???
"In addition, the effect of the ruling is to raise further complex jurisdictional issues that will need to be resolved.
"Regardless of the court decision, the Church remains irrevocably committed to strengthening traditional marriage between a man and a woman, which for thousands of years has proven to be the best environment for nurturing children. Notably, the court decision does not change the definition of marriage in nearly three-fourths of the states."
Between just one man and just one woman?