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Women walked by a statue of Joseph and Emma Smith outside the church office building during the 182nd Semiannual General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City in Oct. 2012. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf, File)
SALT LAKE CITY » A high-ranking Mormon leader says the church policy against same-sex marriage was a revelation from God.
Apostle Russell M. Nelson, head of the religion’s governing body and next in line for the Mormon presidency, said in a worldwide speech Sunday that Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas S. Monson received instructions regarding same-sex couples directly from God.
Nelson said that led the church to consider gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion and forbid children of such couples from becoming members of the church. Those children can become Mormons once they are 18 if they renounce same-sex marriage.
Nelson, a 91-year-old apostle, described how church leaders arrived at the decisions during a live-streamed speech from the campus of church-owned Brigham Young University-Hawaii.
Tried to watch the live stream at 3pm yesterday on lds.org it froze up 1/2 way through his talk…was that a sign?
The Blues Brothers were on a mission from God, too.
Did God deliver the “instructions” via the seer stones?
They can believe whatever they want, just like I can. And I believe they are delusional if they believe this guy was contacted directly by “God”.