After the passing of Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California, homosexual activists have been out in full force. They have organized marches around the Lord’s temples (SLC and Las Vegas most recently) and harassed Californians who support Prop 8, so says my sister who lives there. It seems that people who accuse members of the church for being hateful for embracing the gospel truth regarding the sanctity of marriage have become themselves agents of intolerance and intimidation.
These activists did not appear overnight. They have been infiltrating the regulating bodies and the legal system of our courts, changing policies and viewpoints in an attempt to normalize same-sex relationships. I first noticed these developments back in 2001 when they planted some operatives in the American Psychological and Canadian Psychological Associations’ (the APA and CPA). The outcome? Both associations normalized same sex relationships and embraced gay marriage, all in the name of science and progress. Moreover, they claim that psychologists who teach or say anything counter to their pro-gay resolutions are acting in an unethical manner.
I was once a card carrying member of both associations. I am no longer a member of either association, and will remain so for a long time to come.
A few years ago homosexual activists were also successful in ramrodding gay marriage down Canadians’ throats. The issue was never put to a vote among the electorate; it was decided in the dark, smoke filled rooms of the House of Parliament, and pushed through by the defection of one conservative party member to the liberal party. That’s right, the vote of one activist agent in the Canadian House of Commons forced the reality of legalized gay marriage into the lives of millions of Canadians.
Do gay marriage activists realize that they are working for the great and abominable church of the devil? According to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, “To be in opposition to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on moral issues is to link arms with Satan and to fight against God. On this point we must speak plainly and bluntly—there is no middle ground; men are either for him or against him, and those who are not for him are against him” (The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982], 144.)
Let’s not confuse the activists with individuals who are sincerely struggling with same-sex attraction; the latter need our love and support. Yet the activists also need something from us, they need our prayers so that they may realize the error of their ways. There is another thing that we should be doing during these perilous times, that is standing fast in the face of persecution from gay marriage activists and all other detractors. As we do so we can take heart in the inspired promises of the Standard of Truth, uttered by the prophet Joseph Smith:
“No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
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