Well, of course!
Temple marriage is EVERYTHING to Mormons!
10th Mormon "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith was answering a 1958 question related to "marriage in heaven." He took the opportunity to blast away at Christians -- Prostestants and Catholics -- who didn't teach temple marriage for eternity:
"Unfortunately the great apostasy which swept over the earth, the words of the Lord to the Pharisees were misinterpreted because the spirit of revelation had ceased. Therefore the Christian world, Protestant and Catholic, has fallen into this fatal error." (p. 119 republished by the Mormon church-owned Deseret Book Co. in 1979 in Answers to Gospel Questions, Vol. 2)
So here you had a Mormon General Authority teaching that marriage beyond Mormon temples is a "fatal error!"
[Well, exxxxxxxxxxcuuuuuuuuuuuse people for getting married, Mormon "prophets"...I s'pose you want them to live in cohabitation sin vs. committing "fatal errors," eh???]
And now, remember. EVERY time a Mormon "prophet" is cited on these Web sites, they were unanimously "sustained" by Mormon people of that given generation. Mormon people themselves are the very "sustainers" of these kinds of ideas...especially when they give 10% of their income to a church which republishes this stuff as recent as 1979 (or perhaps later).
Btw, this idea that people absolutely HAVE to get married has led Mormon leaders to be revisionistic and go back and declare that both Jesus and the apostle Paul were married.
For the Mormon leaders who taught this, see this Scoutmaster post Mormon general authorities teaching Jesus was married [see post #24]
For the apostle Paul, see Joseph Fielding Smith's Answers to Gospel Questions, Vol. 5, p. 152. This was published by the Mormon church-owned Deseret Book Co. in 1966 and republished in 1979:
"It would be inconsistent for Paul to teach others they had to be married and that marriage was essential for exaltation and then not be married himself. Paul was worthy of the exaltation, therefore, Paul was without any question a married man." [Joseph Fielding Smith was citing NT passages, 1 Tim. 3:2 and Titus 1:6, about how leaders needed to be married to one woman -- hmm...somehow, his predecessors missed these "one wife" passages...but, of course, he neglected the apostle Paul's passage to the Corinthians...1 Cor. 7...about his qualified recommendation for staying single]
Now, 1010rd...why were you pinged here? 'Cause one of your most common complaints about Christian posts is how we supposedly engage in eisegesis. Yet what do we have here? All these Mormon general authorities who have engaged in the absolute worst of eisegesis...reading into texts that say nothing about Jesus or Paul being married...this was retro-revision...eisegesis--all to fit later-imposed Mormon doctrine!
For the Mormon leaders who taught this, see this Scoutmaster post Mormon general authorities teaching Jesus was married [see post #24]