In this video presentation, David A. Bednar1 discusses Proposition 8 with a group of young adults.
Noteworthy points I especially appreciated included:
- “If tolerance is the premise” of the propostion, “then its not a one way tolerance . . . it goes both ways. And people can talk, they can appreciate each other and they can have divergent and very different points of view, and they can still get along. And they can even still love each other.”
- A vote against Proposition 8 will essentially create a “tyranny of tolerance”. On its face, a vote against “seems to be tolerant, but it only goes in one direction” and will create “inevitable clashes between religious liberty and free speech.”
- A vote against Proposition 8 will likely have “extended ripples over time”. These ripples may include treating “heterosexual marriage and homosexual-marriage . . . on equal footing” in public education and “be infused into the school curricula, and be mandated.”
- Happiness “comes in a variety of ways, but all of those ways focus on and lead to the marriage between a man and a woman. And if they are blessed to have children, the rearing and nurturing of those children. That’s what it’s all about.”
From all that I gather, a vote in favor of Proposition 8 will have little to no consequences for its opponents. On the other hand, a vote against Proposition 8 will likely have disastrous consequences on families and future generations of children.
Sources:
- Elder David A. Bednar is a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.↩
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Tags: David A. Bednar, Marriage, Religious Liberty, Tyranny of Tolerance
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Phouchg
on October 16, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Once again, marriage is not primarily about children. It is about two people coming together in love, respect, admiration and mutual benefit. Children may or may not be part of that family. It’s OK either way.
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ama
on October 18, 2008 at 2:20 am
Marriage is ordained of God between man and woman. It is the fundamental unit of society. While one should respect and love people of all races and sexual preferance, we should not go so far to allow law to have gay marriage and heterosexual marriage on the same plain. It’s not. It is about love between man and woman and also about raising a family.
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D. Hessling
on October 19, 2008 at 11:36 pm
We all talk about “Tolerance”. We have to have tolerance with others and “their” beliefs, but who tolerates God now-a days? God is very specific in His instructions to mankind and we may not deviate from them or we cannot confess to believe in Him. If we trespass His commandments and one of them is not to have premarital sex, then we slap God in the face. We,as Christians, cannot tolerate sin and
There is only ONE sin!
Whether we believe it or not we are,
we rely on God;
He not on us.
We want something from God!
We are the beegars!
“Thou shalt love God with all thy heart soul, and might!”
And put Him in the first place!
When we think more on our illness, needs, wishes
more than on God, we sin!
Then we are thinking more on ourselves and
consider ourselves more important and higher than God,And that is the one sin.
As soon as we recognize our dependancy on God the sooner we may attain His goal for us.
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Seanette
on August 7, 2009 at 12:38 am
Simply put, we cannot redefine that which God has defined (see, among other references, the Proclamation on the Family) without incurring His displeasure, and I really think that as amoral as our society is becoming we’re getting quite enough of that already. Pride cycle in the Book of Mormon look familiar?
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Greg
on August 7, 2009 at 11:44 am
Thanks Seanette – I believe Elder Ballard spoke about where we are at in that cycle in his last general conference talk Learning the Lessons of the Past:
You don’t have to be a Latter-day Saint—you don’t even have to be religious—to see the repeating pattern of history in the lives of God’s children as recorded in the Old Testament. Time and again we see the cycle of righteousness followed by wickedness. Similarly, the Book of Mormon records that ancient civilizations of this continent followed exactly the same pattern: righteousness followed by prosperity, followed by material comforts, followed by greed, followed by pride, followed by wickedness and a collapse of morality until the people brought calamities upon themselves sufficient to stir them up to humility, repentance, and change.
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charles
on March 4, 2010 at 10:15 am
Marriage is about having kids. Society has become so dissonnected from nature that we think that that is not the case. People who want to change what marriage is have already broken whatever marital vows they had and claim to fix the institution. You can’t fix something you already broke.
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