Proposition 8

My little entry here is only one of thousands of comments about this particular issue. I wanted, nevertheless, to add my two cents.

I have read a lot of the online postings on news websites about this proposition and people's opinions, reactions, and intentions regarding it. I have had an hour-long conversation with my younger brother Will and a shorter conversation with Erin about it. I have pondered it in my heart. I have questioned myself whether I was being hateful in my arguments. I have prayed about it, mostly to plead for the preservation of righteous and wholesome marriage in this country.

I still have the same opinion after all that.

I am for Proposition 8, even though I'm not voting for it.

I know God loves his children, all of them, even the ones who are deviating from His perfect pattern of families. I have no doubt of that. I am certain he sorrows over the iniquity of His children, obviously because He loves them.

His prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, the only one on the earth authorized to speak for the Lord to all the inhabitants of the earth has sustained what the prophets before him have spoken: marriage right now is for one man and one woman. Perhaps at various times it was commanded for a man to take more than one woman to wife, but the prophet at that time spoke for the Lord when that was needful. Never before and never hereafter has it been or will it be proper or right for members of the same sex to marry or engage in sexual relations one with another. That is the standard set by the Lord communicated by His prophet.

My stand is with the Prophet of the Lord. I raised my hand to sustain him as my prophet. I did that because I knew by the power of the Holy Ghost that he is God's mouthpiece. Therefore, I support and sustain his position on this issue. I certainly have compassion for the homosexual, but I cannot vary from that which is right because of that.