March 30 — Shaming into Obedience. Psalm 71:24 “My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.”
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LDS Leaders have a lot of explaining to do in light of Mr. Clark’s statement. Ask a Mormon how early leaders could live up to Clark’s doctrine, and fulfill their obligatory duties of polygamy. The truth is that they never lived up to their own standards. Their polygamous marriages never could have been legalized, and they knew it then, as they do now. Furthermore, mankind isn’t immortal.
Lastly, every Mormon understands not being a virgin at the time of marriage brings shame. What kind of good news is this?
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Handbook of the Restoration, p. 596 “The Church has from the beginning demanded of its youth, male and female, one standard only, absolute continence until proper marriage has legalized and hallowed the sexual relations. To this there is no exception. I now repeat what I have said before:
Man is a biological unit, an animal, but he is more than this, he is the temple of an immortal spirit. That spirit can be defiled by the flesh and defilement comes when the laws of chastity are violated.
Our very civilization itself is based upon chastity, the sanctity of marriage and the holiness of the home. Destroy these and Christian man becomes a brute.” — J. Reuben Clark [emp. added]
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