Intellectually, I'll pose the question to you LDS liberals and the few apostates here

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Originally Posted by fusnik11

Could you imagine if the church rallied it's members around an idea that would actually make a difference in this world? Like what if the church said, the family is being attacked, will the membership please dedicate their time over the next couple of months to helping out a woman's shelter to help with the families that are falling apart. Or what if the church read over the pulpit, we want you to contact your local goverment officials to volunteer your services in an inner city school this week.

Those are doable things that increase the value of the family, the church membership, and encourage love and compassion instead of strong arming its membership into thinking that a dude and a dude getting hitched is attacking the family.....

Fus, the church has always encouraged its members to support good causes. Far more time has been spent convincing church members to do good works than has been spent opposing gay marriage. There are many good members of the church who do what you mentioned and more as a direct result of gospel teachings.

Next, though your ideas for service in this instance are noble and valuable they have little to do with protecting the family from "attack".