Threats to Marriage

Our newly called Prophet said in a 2014 commencement address, ““Male and female are created for what they can do and become, together. It takes a man and a woman to bring a child into the world. Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable. Men and women are distinct and complementary. Children deserve a chance to grow up with both a mom and a dad.”

In the fall of  2008, while living in Southern California, I had the privilege of joining with many like-minded people to be part of the Proposition 8 campaign to try and save traditional marriage.  I made phone calls encouraging people to vote, I put a sign in my yard trying to inspire people to vote for “prop 8”, and I stood all along the busy streets of Southern California holding signs to show that I stood for marriage being between a man and a woman.  There were many of my LDS faith doing the same, but there were also so many of different religions that believed the same way and wanted their voice to be heard.  See the chart below for the results of the efforts made by so many for this great cause on November 4, 2008. 

Election results

California Proposition 8
Overturned Case:Hollingsworth v Perry No. 12–144
Result	Votes	Percentage
Yes	7,001,084	52.24%
No	6,401,482	47.76%

Turnout: 79.4% of registered

 We felt we had truly participated in a miracle when the vote went in favor of saving traditional marriage!  It is so disappointing to me that 10 years later all the work we did and all the voices who spoke in California have been ignored.  The system we have in place of voicing our desires through the vote has been manipulated by the opposition so that it is now void.  Marriage is worth fighting for and we of the LDS faith and many other God-fearing religions will continue to teach and to speak out about the true nature of marriage and what it was designed to be.  Justice Roberts and all those who did not concur with the five justices who voted to make same-sex marriage legal nationally said, “Marriage did not come about as a result of a political movement, discovery, disease, war, religious doctrine, or any other moving force of world history—and certainly not as a result of a prehistoric decision to exclude gays and lesbians. It arose in the nature of things to meet a vital need: ensuring that children are conceived by a mother and father committed to raising them in the stable conditions of a lifelong relationship.”