{"id":21587,"date":"2022-11-25T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21587"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:47:33","slug":"mormon-church-calls-radical-same-sex-marriage-bill-the-best-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/mormon-church-calls-radical-same-sex-marriage-bill-the-best-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Church calls radical same-sex \u2018marriage\u2019 bill the \u2018best way forward\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the church said its doctrine on marriage \u2018is well known and will remain unchanged,\u2019 it believes the radical so-called Respect for Marriage Act \u2018is the best way forward.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, long seen as a bulwark for conservative family values, sent out shockwaves Tuesday when it gave its support for radical legislation currently before Congress that would enshrine gay \u201cmarriage\u201d into federal law. The affirmation comes despite the church\u2019s previous moves to fight LGBT infiltration in the culture.<\/p>\n

The LDS made the declaration in a Tuesday statement published on its official website.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, while the church\u2019s doctrine \u201crelated to marriage between a man and a woman is well known and will remain unchanged,\u201d it believes the so-called Respect for Marriage Act protecting homosexual unions under federal law \u201cis the best way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

If passed by Congress, the legislation would federally codify a radical redefinition marriage at odds with all major religions. Catholic bishops, including San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas \u2014 along with leading conservative organizations \u2014 have warned the measure would pave the way for discrimination against Christians and others who support the traditional understanding of marriage.<\/p>\n

As LifeSiteNews has reported, bipartisan carveouts for religious liberty have focused solely protecting religious nonprofits from being compelled to solemnize or celebrate a same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d opposed with that group\u2019s religious beliefs. Notably lacking is any language shielding Christians or other people of faith who simply reject homosexual unions as a form of \u201cmarriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at: www.lifesitenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the church said its doctrine on marriage \u2018is well known and will remain unchanged,\u2019 it believes the radical so-called Respect for Marriage Act \u2018is the best way forward.\u2019 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, long seen as a bulwark for conservative family values, sent out shockwaves Tuesday when it gave its support … Continue reading Mormon Church calls radical same-sex \u2018marriage\u2019 bill the \u2018best way forward\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5Cb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21595,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}