LDSToronto wrote:Droopy,
Oaks essentially says that all sexual feelings can be overcome outside of marriage. He further states that sex is only for those married. If a man is married to a man, legally, in Canada, there seems to be an implication that the church must recognize that those two men have a divine right to engage in sexual activity.
Perhaps you can elaborate on this interesting loophole.
H.
I know of divorced men and women who have lead celibate lives as single individuals. In counseling one man, he stated that his heterosexual sexual desires quickly were squelched as he focused on more important things in his life. So why can't sexual feelings be overcome?
The church recognizes that the marriage between a man and women is often started to bring about a family. While there are some who can't have children they have the opportunity to have a family through adoption. What use is it for two males or two females to get married when they can not produce offspring? What purpose is marriage then if this primary factor of marriage can not be obtained.
Every child should have the opportunity to be raised by a mother and father because this is the ideal form of a family. In some cases it is not so, and a child is raised by a single parent or by same sex partners. While some of these children may deserve our pity, it is often the selfish desires of some that bring about a family condition that may be undesirable.