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"When President Gordon B. Hinckley first read 'The Family: A Proclamation to the World' 20 years ago this year, we were grateful for and valued the clarity, simplicity and truth of this revelatory document," LDS Young Women General President Bonnie L. Oscarson told thousands of female Mormons gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, with millions more watching via satellite and computers around the globe. "Little did we realize then how very desperately we would need these basic declarations in today's world as the criteria by which we could judge each new wind of worldly dogma coming at us from the media, the Internet, scholars, TV and films and even legislators."
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She was speaking at the annual women's meeting for female Mormons age 8 and up, this year designated for the first time as the official opening session of the General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Oscarson laid out three principles in the proclamation that need "steadfast defenders" — that marriage should be between a man and a woman, that parenthood is a divine calling and that LDS homes should be "places of refuge, holiness and safety."

She issued a challenge to LDS women to defend these principles whenever they could.

"We need to continue to model righteous marriages, seek for that blessing in our lives, and have faith if it is slow in coming," Oscarson said. "Let us be defenders of marriage as the Lord has ordained it while continuing to show love and compassion for those with differing views."