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| ==Question: If same-sex attraction is something that occurs naturally, why can't God and the Church accept it by allowing sealings of LGBT couples?==
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| ===The Fall of Adam and Eve brought the entire human family the opportunity to overcome its effects. Christ asks us all to take up our cross and follow him===
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| Some have brought up the sensitive question of why gay marriage and other LGBT relationships can't be accepted by God and the Church if the characteristic is innate and even occurs in nature. There is no easy way to respond to this given the nature of the issues. However, some struggle to find a purpose in the command to not engage in homosexual behvaior. It is with that intent that this article is written.
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| It should be first noted that those who make this argument commit the [https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Logical_fallacies/Page_3 naturalistic fallacy] in logic. Just because it occurs in nature, that does not, by necessity, make the behavior inherently correct.
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| The Fall of Adam and Eve brought with it the opportunity to overcome its effects. Humans were placed on this earth to have dominion over it and to take care of it (Genesis 1:26). With the fall, we had other things to overcome. The nature that we experience today is fallen which is a good thing! We get to learn the difference between good and evil and overcome evil (2 Nephi 2:25). Nature is both chaotic and orderly. To those parts of nature that don't have order, God has revealed to us through prophets how to properly bring them into an order that can provide us and all of God's past, present, and future children the best chance at obtaining the most happiness. God created a man and woman to bring those children to the earth as part of an efficient and secure order that could bring about that happiness. This is why the sanctity of heterosexual marriage is defended so vigorously within the Church.
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| Those who do not seek to understand same-sex attraction within the greater scope of the Plan of Salvation are not sufficiently wrestling with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy theodicy] (the LDS theodicy being laid out in 2 Nephi 2:11-13 primarily but strengthened by the doctrine of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa Fortunate Fall] and our belief that evil has always existed--God not being the source of it (Abraham 3:27-28)). This is simply one of the effects of the fall that we have to overcome. Everyone has them. Christ asks us to take up our cross (Matthew 10:28; 16:24; Luke 9:23; 14:27;) and overcome the natural man (Mosiah 3:19)
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| [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/3.19?lang=eng Mosiah 3:19]
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| 19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.</blockquote>
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| This opposition to homosexual behavior should not be grounds for any kind of insensitivity, violence, or other discrimination of LGBT peoples. Members faced with helping LGBT persons should do so with a spirit of compromise, love, and discernment. As we listen to each other and seek to learn from one another, we can grow stronger together in our commitment to follow the Savior.
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| <b>FairMormon stands with the Church in the unequivocal condemnation of discrimination of LGBT persons for their sexual orientation.</b>
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