Patrick Mason: 'The church’s support for the bill is indeed notable, but is shocking only if you think it’s still 2008.'
Supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community hold up signs during a protest over recent remarks by LDS apostle Boyd K. Packer that same-sex attraction is "impure and "unnatural," in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010.Last week the Senate voted to advance the Respect for Marriage Act with bipartisan support.
Fast forward seven years later. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that same-sex marriage was a protected right under the Constitution. The church immediately issued a If 2008 is your baseline, then the church’s grudging acceptance of Obergefell in 2015 and now its support for the Respect for Marriage Act don’t make much sense. But both make perfect sense in light of a longer history — not of the church’s views on homosexuality, but its views on politics.
In 1890, after decades of escalating pressure and coercion from the federal government, church President Wilford Woodruff announced that the church would suspend its most controversial practice of plural marriage. In his “,” Woodruff publicly declared his “intention to submit to those laws” passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.
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