Proposition 8

Wednesday night, Luke and I attended a special fireside held at the USU Institute of Religion on Proposition 8. We are obviously not California residence but it was open to others and we were curious. Neither of us fully understood why the LDS church was taking such a forceful stand on the issue. Boy, were we enlightened!!! We had no idea what effect legalizing gay marriage in California will have on us.
Elder Ballard, Elder Cook, and a member of the seventies, spoke and each of the urged all of us to do our part. Whether it be by calling all of our Californian friends and family, donating to the cause, or simply blogging about it, we need to do something.

Thursday we were contacted by the Herald Journal (Logan's newspaper) to comment. Last night we located the article on the internet and were sooooooooo disgusted at all of the negative comments that article created.
We need to preserve the definition of marriage!!! It's not about being anti-homosexual. It's about marriage between a man and a woman being ordained of God! If Proposition 8 is not passed then our religious freedoms are threatened because our church does not allow for gay marriages. Our children will have to be taught both heterosexual and homosexual practices in school during the sex-ed. The church could be denied it's tax-exempt status. Adoption agencies that don't allow for same sex couples to adopt can be threatened.... and so on.

Please check out these links on Proposition 8. They will express the importance of it far greater than I can.

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

http://www.preservingmarriage.org/

and this is the link to the article in the Herald Journal.

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2008/10/10/news/news02-10-10-08.txt

But remember, we need to act in a Christ-like manner. Much of the fireside was focused on pursuing this in a loving way like our Savior. Christ loved the sinner, but did not condone the sin. Neither should we. In the name of tolerance, too many of us condone sinful or immoral practices. That is not the Lord's way and it should not be ours. We can love our homosexual friends and family members but we should not allow for this to destroy the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.