"When that Family Proclamation was read to the church, and by extension the world, nothing seemed surprising, outlandish or different about it. We couldn’t have dreamed at the time that it would ever be a controversial statement or that it might someday be a core belief that would drive us to the margins of our society"
My mom has made the same comment to me several times. And followed it up with the same conclusion: God knew what was going to happen to our society, and he knew that what seemed normal would become unusual and vice versa, and he told his prophets.
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Marilynne LinfordDecember 24, 2025
Powerful. Thank you.
Richard GardnerDecember 13, 2025
"When that Family Proclamation was read to the church, and by extension the world, nothing seemed surprising, outlandish or different about it. We couldn’t have dreamed at the time that it would ever be a controversial statement or that it might someday be a core belief that would drive us to the margins of our society" My mom has made the same comment to me several times. And followed it up with the same conclusion: God knew what was going to happen to our society, and he knew that what seemed normal would become unusual and vice versa, and he told his prophets.
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