Comments on: Question about Mormons and same-sex marriage https://womenseekingchrist.org/2014/11/09/question-about-mormons-and-same-sex-marriage/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:10:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Rigg https://womenseekingchrist.org/2014/11/09/question-about-mormons-and-same-sex-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-312307 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:10:42 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=14257#comment-312307 I don’t know how old this page is. I live in the uk i am a male who is straight as far as i am aware same sex marriage is possible legally in the uk. I don’t think this is possible within the mormon religion or church. I myself have read the whole book of Mormon when i was younger it took about 2 weeks every day after school and as far as i can remember i can understand my thoughts after reading and why it may be condemned. I started speaking to Mormon missionary’s in my city and took their number more recently i am 24yo. I asked them the question about same sex marriage by text and they told me they don’t believe in that. It put me off a bit as i have friends that are bisexuals or whatever you want to call it. I am not very religious but i do respect others beliefs. Just thought i would share my thoughts.

]]> By: Peggy https://womenseekingchrist.org/2014/11/09/question-about-mormons-and-same-sex-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-280890 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:40:24 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=14257#comment-280890 Just pondering my own thoughts about this question that this nice gentleman asked, as I was already reflecting on this today and wondering where this re-defining of marriage and family is leading us.
I can’t help but think, how could God change His law on this, even if He wanted to? We, LDS, know He is a God of truth from eternity to eternity, so His laws are laws of truth. From the time of Adam and Eve it has taken a man and a woman to have a child. No one can dispute that. No one can change that. How can families or people be perpetuated without both man and woman?
I know 2 married Lesbians, members of our church. They have a daughter, but she is only the natural child, the blood child, of one spouse, because obviously she had to get artificially inseminated. If 2 married men had a child, they either have to adopt or get a woman to carry their child–again, only possible to be the blood of one spouse at a time. So there is no way through same sex marriage to perpetuate a pure blood line–meaning the blood of both parents. If there was no other way to do this than by natural means only, then families and people would become extinct and that would frustrate God’s plan for His children.

Of course that doesn’t mean that same-sex parents can’t love their children or be as good of a parent, but it still denies a child a parent of each sex, which offers a child something you just couldn’t get from parents of same sex. So truth can only stand with God’s law, that marriages and families are perpetuated with a man and a woman.

I believe that God has a perfect plan for each one of us, that He knows the end from the beginning, and He only wants the best possible welfare and eternal salvation that each of us can possibly attain. But I also believe that from Eternity to Eternity He is the same, and His laws will never change, but will stand to the end of time and on into eternity.

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