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Originally Posted by creekster
I am not sure that it is a mistake. I think it means gender as you define it. I had assumed this is the point. If only biological, it seems to me it would make no sense to reference pre-mortal life.
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Gender varies with culture--masculinity and feminity are not the same over time or even through space. Victorianism, for example, posits certain masculinities and feminities that are quite distinct from those, in say, Japan of the same time period or of ancient Greece.
Are you suggesting that the Proclamation declares that such cultural differences existed in the pre-mortal spirit world? If so, I think that is a doctrinal novelty.
The paragraph begins by making declarations regarding males and females, and spirit sons and daughters. It looks to me like an application of sexuality is being made, albeit in both a conventional physical sense and an LDS-specific spiritual sense. The spirits are sons and daughters of heavenly parents, and are not merely spiritual masculines and feminines.