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 I've been pondering a lot about how hard it is for me to wrestle with the fact that those who are gay are not able to marry those they love. That they cannot be saved in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom and be married to someone of their same sex.

I've asked myself how a loving God could send anyone to earth gay and then make a plan that excludes them from exaltation. That does not seem fair.

How are we to fully love someone and accept them if our very doctrine excludes them?

Perhaps this is our Abrahamic trial. He was asked to sacrifice his son even though he didn't know why. He was obedient and went through. Only when he was about to kill his son was he stopped. Sometimes the things God asks us to uphold and believe may not seem logical. Perhaps that is the case with the church's stance on gay marriage.

2 Nephi 25:24-26

24 And, notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we akeep the law of Moses, and look forward with steadfastness unto Christ, until the law shall be fulfilled.

25 For, for this end was the alaw given; wherefore the law hath become bdead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments.

26 And we atalk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we bprophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our cchildren may know to what source they may look for a dremission of their sins.

Maybe upholding the marriage between a man and a woman is our "keep the law of Moses" trial also. 

In any case, we must all turn to Christ and keep having faith in him even when topics like this are gut-wrenchingly difficult to navigate, particularly with our family and friends who are gay.


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