In 1995, the LDS Church issued a strongly worded theological defense of the importance of marriage between a man and a woman and spelled out traditional roles for parents. Today, those ideas are under even greater attack, a top Mormon leader said Saturday.
"When President Gordon B. Hinckley first read 'The Family: A Proclamation to the World' 20 years ago this year, we were grateful for and valued the clarity, simplicity and truth of this revelatory document," LDS Young Women General President Bonnie L. Oscarson told thousands of female Mormons gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, with millions more watching via satellite and computers around the globe. "Little did we realize then how very desperately we would need these basic declarations in today's world as the criteria by which we could judge each new wind of worldly dogma coming at us from the media, the Internet, scholars, TV and films and even legislators."
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