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To: JAKraig
I appreciate that, but it has been said, over and over. The samples above were just this week.

Here's another.

Unchanging Standards of Morality

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that God has established clear standards of morality for His children, who are accountable before Him for their behavior. Such standards cannot be changed by the reasoning, emotions, personal interests, or opinions of mortal beings.[10] Without the higher authority of God, as revealed in scripture and by His prophets, secular society will flounder and drift.

Many advocates of same-sex marriage argue that traditional standards of sexual morality have changed and that “tolerance” requires that these new standards be recognized and codified in law. If tolerance is defined as showing kindness for others and respect for differing viewpoints, it is an important value in all democratic societies. But as Elder Dallin H. Oaks has observed, “Tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.”[11]

The Savior taught that we should love the sinner without condoning the sin. In the case of the woman taken in adultery, He treated her kindly but exhorted her to “sin no more.”[12] His example manifested the highest love possible.

In addition to using the argument of tolerance to advocate redefining marriage, proponents have advanced the argument of “equality before the law.” No mortal law, however, can override or nullify the moral standards established by God. Nor can the laws of men change the natural, innate differences between the genders or deny the close biological and social link between procreation and marriage.

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

46 posted on 10/14/2014 1:55:34 PM PDT by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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But I think you’re asking if it will go away. No, it won’t. Satan will always rage against that which is right and true, no matter which religions teach said truth.


47 posted on 10/14/2014 1:58:25 PM PDT by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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