Posted on 10/08/2014 2:26:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says its doctrine on marriage will remain unchanged despite Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized gay marriage in five states, including Utah, and opened the door for legalization in six more. “As far as the civil law is concerned, the courts have spoken,” the church said in a statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision.
“Church leaders will continue to encourage our people to be persons of good will toward all, rejecting persecution of any kind based on race, ethnicity, religious belief or nonbelief, and differences in sexual orientation.”
In September, the Mormon church was among five religious organizations that filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the country’s high court to hear Utah’s appeal on gay marriage. The church was also a major player in supporting Proposition 8 in California in 2008 -- an amendment to the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Members of the church donated millions to support the amendment and made up 80 percent to 90 percent of volunteers who canvassed election precincts handing out pamphlets.
Now, the Mormon church has decided to let the legal battle go. Still, LDS emphasized the fact that the civil law will have “no effect on the doctrinal position or practices” of the church....
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Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
HAng around this thread.
If it goes long; as a lot of MORMON themed threads do; you'll learn a LOT about the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latterday Saints.
(A bunch of it that today's MORMONs wish you'd NOT know about!)
The Navajo are STILL a matriarchal society
After that big barbeque; people tended to GET THE MESSAGE!
HAng around this thread.
I don`t live in Virginia.
As soon as the survivors of the fire got a little ways outta town; they didn’t wait long to hump their daddy.
I am talking about the husband. And polygamy runs like a chain reaction. One of the wives sets the precedent. Don’t think that others won’t follow because one of them showed the rest that it could be done. What about favorites? What about multiple sets of in-laws? There is fantasy, but then there is also reality. There’s too much expenses to consider, the offshoots keep it because unlike the mainstream Mormons, they don’t care about pushing for growth.
Changing one’s heart is a good thing.
God is good.
I don’t want to put any roadblocks between other people and God with anger and rage of my own toward anyone or anything.
Amen!
Plenty of mainstream LDS already are. While the LDS Church isn't going to agitate for polygamy rights I can assure you that they won't be fighting against them, either.
Logically speaking, once the lid was lifted on marriage being just between one man and one woman then there is no longer any legal grounds to limit it to any particular combination at all.
So just as I expect five men will have the right to marry then so should one man and four women.
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