1 gen 1969 anni - "Miracle of Forgiveness" [Part 25]

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The late LDS President Spencer W. Kimball’s The Miracle of Forgiveness was a classic but controversial book that shaped Mormon sexual assumptions for generations. Recently, however, it has quietly disappeared from full distribution.

The much-circulated 1969 treatise on guilt, wrongdoing and repentance by then apostle Spencer W. Kimball presented many strong opinions such as masturbation “too often [leading] to … homosexuality,” the existence of homosexuals being a “crime against nature,” homosexuality being a gateway to bestiality, and premarital sex being “the sin next to murder.”

“All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural,” he wrote, “but wrong in the sight of God.”

The publisher sold at least 1.7 million copies of “The Miracle of Forgiveness.”

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“Thus, prophets anciently and today condemn masturbation ... While we should not regard this weakness as the heinous sin which some other sexual practices are, it is of itself bad enough to require sincere repentance. What is more, it too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex, and then into total homosexuality [77-78].”

"Sin in sex practices tends to have a ‘snowballing' effect. As the restraints fall away, Satan incites the carnal man to ever-deepening degeneracy in his search for excitement until in many instances he is lost to any former consideration of decency. Thus, it is that through the ages, perhaps as an extension of homosexual practices, men and women have sunk even to seeking sexual gratification with animals [78].”

"Many have been misinformed that they are powerless in the matter, not responsible for the tendency, and that God ‘made them that way'. This is as untrue as any other of the diabolical lies Satan has concocted.

“It is blasphemy. Man is made in the image of God. Does the pervert think God to be ‘that way [85]?”

"Sometimes not heavenly but earthly parents get the blame. Granted that certain conditions make it easier for one to become a pervert, the second Article of Faith teaches that a man will be punished for his own sins. He can, if normal, rise above the frustrations of childhood and stand on his own feet [85].”

-Spencer W. Kimball Apostle, Quorum of the Twelve "The Miracle of Forgiveness,” Chapter Six,1969, pp. 77-78, 85

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