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| Los Angeles Temple -- June 1967 |
It’s utterly remarkable to me that this year Judy & I will have in our family 20 adults and, through birth and adoption, 40 grandchildren. For us all in this turbulent world safety is everyone returning home to Heavenly Father. That is the ultimate purpose of family--getting everyone home safe.
It’s a wonder to me that a man and a women can coax a being from the spiritual realm into mortality by offering a physical body to that son or daughter of God. Mormon knowledge is that through the Atonement of Christ and obedience to the process laid out by Heavenly Father, families can be sealed together in Temples--either by being married by designated authority and having children within that marriage covenant or by qualifying to be sealed as a family unit of parents and children. Then they need to live the rest of their lives appropriately.
In a very real sense the only expression of human sexuality that allows for families and members of families to return safely to the presence of God, our Heavenly Father, and enjoy the blessing of continuing family is within the new and everlasting covenant of marriage. And those marriages and sealings are performed by authority in Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Such is the truest definition and context of Safe Sex.
