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Equality |
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“…it was strictly contrary to the
commands of God that there should be a law which should bring men on to
unequal grounds”
Alma 30:7.
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If Utah or Federal law allows some members of our community
to marry according to their heart and belief, and forbids Gays and Lesbians
that same privilege, how is that equal grounds?
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“Now there was a strict law among the people of
the church, that there should not any man, belonging to the church,
arise and persecute those that did not belong to the church, and that
there should be no persecution among themselves. Nevertheless there
were many among them who began to be proud and began to contend warmly….”
Alma 1:21-22
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“And there was a strict command throughout all
the churches that there should be no persecutions among them, that there
should be an equality among all men; That they should let no pride nor
haughtiness disturb their peace; that every man should esteem his neighbor
as himself…” Mosiah
27:3-4
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equal 1 b : like in quality, nature, or status c : like
for each member of a group, class, or society <provide equal employment
opportunities>
2 : regarding or affecting all objects in the same way : IMPARTIAL (Merrian-Webster
Online Dictionary); 2. with the same rights: having the same privileges,
rights, status, and opportunities as others with all citizens equal
under the law MSN Encarta Online Dictionary
equal·i·ty 1 : the quality or state of
being equal. (Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary)
1. state of being equal: rights, treatment, quantity, or value equal
to all others in a given group
full equality under the law MSN Encarta Online Dictionary
per·se·cute 1 : to harass in a manner
designed to injure, grieve, or afflict; specifically : to cause to suffer
because of belief Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary;
oppress people: to systematically subject a race or
group of people to cruel or unfair treatment, for example, because of
their ethnic origin or religious beliefs 2. pester somebody: to make
somebody the victim of continual pestering or harassment MSN Encarta
Online Dictionary
per·se·cu·tion 1 : the act or practice
of persecuting especially those who differ in origin, religion, or social
outlook Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary
1. the persecuting of somebody: the subjecting of a
group of people to cruel or unfair treatment, for example, because of
their ethnic origin or religious beliefs MSN Encarta Online Dictionary
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Does pride play any role in the belief that only God’s
heterosexual children are deserving of love, marriage, families, and Constitutional
rights, liberties and protections? |
A Book of Mormon prophet wrote: “concerning pride;
and those of you which have afflicted your neighbor, and persecuted
him because ye were proud in your hearts, of the things which God hath
given you, what say ye of it? Do ye not suppose that such things are
abominable unto him who created all flesh? And the one being is as precious
in his sight as the other”
Jacob 2:20-21.
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Are you truly willing to believe this scripture, that
one of God’s Gay children is as precious as His Straight children?
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“...thus saith the Lord: Ye shall not esteem one
flesh above another, or one man shall not think himself above another”
Mosiah 23:7. |
“And again I say unto you, let every man esteem
his brother as himself.
“For what man among you having twelve sons, and is no respecter
of them, and they serve him obediently, and he saith unto the one: Be
thou clothed in robes and sit thou here; and to the other: Be thou clothed
in rags and sit thou there - and looketh upon his sons and saith I am
just?”
“Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even
as I am. I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine”
Doctrine and Covenants
38:24-27.
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“... all men are privileged the one like unto
the other, and none are forbidden...he denieth none that come unto him,
black and white, bond and free, male and female;...and all are alike
unto God, both Jew and Gentile”
2 Nephi 26:28,
33
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“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth
I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation
he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him”
Acts 10:34-35
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