Mormon church leaders have asked their California members to join the effort to amend that state's constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.
A letter sent to Mormon congregation bishops and signed by church president Thomas S. Monson and his two top counselors calls upon Mormons to donate "means and time" to the ballot measure. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says the letter is authentic.
The church will work with a coalition of churches and other conservative groups that put the California Marriage Protection Act on the Nov. 4 ballot to assure its passage, the letter states.
"The church's teachings and position on this moral issue are unequivocal. Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and the formation of families is central to the Creator's plan for His children," the four paragraph letter states.
Wait! Marriage is a right granted and controlled by the state. Have you ever heard a minister pronounce someone married based solely on the authority of a church? If you said yes, you're not entirely correct; in order for the marriage to be legal, the minister must say "and the state of ______ I now pronounce you married."
One word for church president Monson..... love makes a family!
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