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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So, will the Mormon church refuse to do gay weddings, and if so, will the lawsuits fly?
Will Adam and Steve get their own planet without a temple marriage?
Do the Mormons really think the civil law will protect their religious rights????
The Mormons will accept Sharia Law while the Christians continue to fight against it also...
its the nature of the beast...
Maybe some Mormons are going to become polygamist.
Mormons don’t offer their weddings to the general public. They don’t admit people who can’t prove themselves Mormon at all into their temples, and despite their words of admonishing kindness, you have people who are angry because they were homosexual and excommunicated from the Mormons when they “came out”. I am surprised that homos haven’t sued the church just for a “right to not be excommunicated”.
No....you have to be in good standing to get married in a Mormon Temple.
Give them time.
Yeah . . . the planet Ko-Ball
There is certainly a better Biblical argument for that than homosexual "marriage"; at least in the Old Testament.
My guess is the next major step of the homosexual lobby will be to pull the license to marry people from any person or organization who refuses to perform gay marriages. Thus Catholic and Mormon marriages will not be recognized as valid in the eyes of the civil law. Therefore, couples will have to be married civilly as well as in their religious ceremonies in order to be legally married.
The Mormons see an opening for its polygamist branches in the SCOTUS refusal to defend traditional marriage.
You have to wonder.
It is becoming very clear that the homosexuals did actually take over Sodom and Gomorrah.
Was any one there still claiming that it was a nation under God?
The Mormons see an opening for its polygamist branches in the SCOTUS refusal to defend traditional marriage.
Maybe some Mormons are going to become polygamist.
My guess is the next major step of the homosexual lobby will be to pull the license to marry people from any person or organization who refuses to perform gay marriages.
The folks that push gay marriage aren’t stopping until such marriages are performed in Mormon temples.
The LDS Church is saying don’t discriminate against us and we won’t discriminate against you.
I have no problem with the stance they take, but I believe it isn’t going to stop the modern day stormtroopers.
Mormoms have already been discriminated against over gay marriage with one example being the director of a performing arts center in Sacramento being forced to resign over his financial support for Proposition 8.
I used to get angry with people like Mormons and Catholics and so on but its just not the way to go.
Those who believe in traditional values need to “face the truth about themselves” as dare I say Glenn Beck has said.
I am a currently sober ex-Drunkamentalist Christian and I feel freedom in surrendering all my anger and in my willingness to feel the pain of others including those in the LGBT community who think rage and revenge are the answer to real and imagined wrongs done to them.
I’ve had to surrender my anger and I know its the answer for them as well.
God help those raging gay and lesbian activists to find some sanity and sobriety in their lives.
“The Mormons see an opening for its polygamist branches”
What polygamous branches?
What I find deliciously ironic, is what took place in the late 1800’s. Your federal Government using the same methods as today with threats of complete destruction brought the Church to it’s knees financially, and then attacked it’s members married to more than one woman, by threatening and following through with jail sentences, thus putting large families in the poor house because the bread winner was in the graybar hotel.
The church, in order to survive, was thus forced to change what was doctrine by revelation, whether you or anyone else believes it, the Church and it’s member’s did, and it was so long it’s been good to know ya, first amendment to the Constitution, before the twentieth century even began.
Statehood was also at stake during the same time and doctrinal change was demanded in order to achieve the same.
We have now come full circle and everyone’s ox is now being gored. Meanwhile somehow the many wives of our Muslim friends seem to be forgotten in the dust up.
So, in conclusion it has been apparent to me for many years, if Christian’s of all persuasions are not willing to stick together, we shall indeed hang separately as one of our founding fathers liked to say.
What hasn’t been said relates to Bishop’s in the LDS Church. They have the power and right to marry civilly. Will they be encouraged to marry same sex couples. I think not, as that will cross a line in regards to other commandments. We shall see.
I hope everyone is able to see what the judiciary is up too. That would be no good. They, along with every other leg of the Constitutional stool, have so far exceeded the limits of their limited powers that they must be constrained.
That said, any attempt at constraint will showcase the very reasons we the people believe they have all exceeded their limited powers enumerated in the Constitution. We the people will bear the scars of any attempt at closing the door on unconstitutionality. The neutered once all powerful States are the last best hope of pulling the Republic back from the brink of Rome.
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