apr 10, 1853 - Spirits of Heaven would thank God for not being born into a world of Gays [Part 16]

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"... or if we, like the Sodomites or Canaanites, were full of all manner of lawless abominations, holding promiscuous intercourse with the similar sex, and stooping to a level with the brute creation, and predisposing our children, by every means in our power, to be fully given to strange and unnatural lusts, appetites, and passions, would it not be a mercy to cut us off, root and branch, and thus put an end to our increase upon the earth?

You will all say it would.

The spirits in heaven would thank God for preventing them from being born into the world under such circumstances.

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Yes, they would; for they could say—"Now there is an opportunity for us to take bodies in the lineage of a noble race, and to be educated in the true science of life, and in the commandments of God." O what an unspeakable contrast, between being a child of Sodom, and a child of Abraham!”

-Parley P. Pratt
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Journal of Discourses
10 April 1853, “Heirship and Priesthood,” p. 259

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