We watched a conference via satellite Wednesday night where Elder Ballard and Elder Cook gave instruction to the California Saints on the Proposition 8. In my experience recently with those who oppose Prop. 8, I have found they interpret it as "anti-gay" or hateful. The consequences of this amendment not passing will have many unseen consequences. We need to let our public know that. For example, our church leaders most likely wouldn't be able to perform marriages because if we were to deny a same-gender couple we could be sued over our religious or personal beliefs. I have a list of different things I will provide later. Here I'll post just a couple of my reasons for supporting this piece of legislation.
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sued for religious or personal beliefs? In the USA? Any way to get a transcript from the broadcast? I"d be interested in reading it. Good job getting the word out, I know this is really important.
p.s. check your link to tiff's blog....it's to a specific post, nothing updated.
I believe this is the best link because the bottom line is that the GA's are strongly inviting us to take a stand on this moral issue despite what everyone who opposes it rationalizes:
http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/
We were also instructed to hand out the "Six Consequences the Coalition (of churches) has Identified if proposition 8 Fails." There is a copy of it on the following blog. The comments on that blog go back & forth so I wouldn't waste time reading them all. The original document consists of the first 6 paragraphs or points:
http://protectingmarriage.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/six-consequences-the-coalition-has-identified-if-proposition-8-fails/
These are "possible" outcomes that people don't see now, nothing necessarily set in stone, but I'm sure the prophet sees (& foresees) why we must take a stand on this now. I know if we follow their counsel, we will be alright.
our rights as parents of school age children will be taken away - we will not be able to have them exempt from the teachings of gay-lesbian lifestyles at school
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