Join Jenn and Julia, from Analyzing Mormonism, as we breakdown and examine The Family Proclamation from a woman's perspective.
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The Family: A Proclamation to the World
"Women weren’t involved in the creation of the Family Proclamation." Dialogue Journal of Mormon Thought, interview with Greg Prince and Sister Okazaki.
1981 - Red Handbook called “Homosexuality”
1984 - Dallin H. Oaks writes a twenty-one page memo entitled "Principles to Govern Possible Public Statement on Legislation Affecting Rights of Homosexuals."
1991 - Letter from the First Presidency “Standards of Morality and Fidelity”
1992 - The First Presidency updates the booklet “Understanding and Helping Those Who Have Homosexual Problems"
1994 - Letter from the First Presidency “Same Gender Marriages”
1995 - The Church seeks to join the case in Hawaii to legalize same-sex marriage
1995 - Hinckley read the Proclamation in the Women’s Session.
Raised by Unicorns edited by Frank Lowe, one of the authors of the amicus brief that legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
The Plan and the Proclamation by Elder Oaks implies that the document was written by lawyers. It was passed around among the quorum of twelve for a year and then passed on up to the First Presidency.
Gender
William J. Critchlow General Conference October 1965
Hyrum Andrus, Doctrinal Commentary on the Pearl of Great Price, p. 116 , 1967
Rodney Turner, 1972
Gordon B. Hinckley, Live up to Your Inheritance, 1983
Birth Control:
Gospel Doctrine, Joseph F. Smith
Study “How Many Same-Sex Couples in the US are having children?” July 2018 UCLA
LGBTQ Parenting:
Center of Surrogate Parenting, 2008 Study
American Psychological Association, 2012 Study
Live Science, 2012 Study
Washington Post on research from Melbourne, Australia, 2014 Study
American Sociological Review, 2020 Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Study
Other Sources:
- Mormon Discussions Podcast Episode 24
- Tabernacles of Clay by Taylor Petrey
- Gay Rights and the Mormon Church by Greg Prince
- Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
- Wheatandtares.org the Historical Context for Family Proclamation
- Baehr vs. Lewin case [now known as Baehr vs. Miike] to legalize Same-Sex Marriage in Hawaii.
