response to upset mother of 2 gay children about Proposition 8

The position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has never changed on this: To love on another, regardless of sexual orientation; to be kind and considerate, not accusatory or prideful or hateful in any way. It has never changed on same-sex marriage being wrong. I know there are a lot of people who have grown up always having had feelings of attraction for the same sex. That's the way they tend to feel. I don't hate them for that. I don't. I haven't met very many where I live, or had the opportunity to be friends with them, but they're usually pretty good neighbors like anyone else. I'm supporting the Proposition NOT to take away my neighbors' rights, but to protect people's rights to their religious beliefs.

Tolerance of people and their feelings does NOT mean tolerance of them doing wrong things. In fact the more you love them the more you help them do what they know is right. You mention other kinds of people who are different, like mentally ill or disabled persons. It isn't okay for them to break the law because they are that way. It also is not okay for anyone to have same-sex relations. But there's no human law against it. Only laws of nature and God. God hasn't changed his feelings about this, but He hasn't stopped loving all His children whatever their orientation, either. He doesn't want any of them using sacred sexual relations improperly, even if they're heterosexual.

I love everyone, and I'm not doing this to attack or demean anyone or take away their happiness or anything like that. People can accept things as right because it is pleasing and makes life easier or gives them something they've longed for. But it's not necessarily right.

Try to turn it around and look at it from the other side. Proposition 8 is to prevent the "Judgment, bigotry and disdain for the civil rights of humans in our present day" that you talked about. Without it, people who favor heterosexual marriage could have their rights trampled on much more severely than homosexual groups ever did. And those rights would be trampled in the name of Tolerance! Our rights are as important as yours, and they are the same rights. I want everyone to have a full, satisfying life. I hope you understand why this is important to me and why I'm promoting it. I'll always try to be a good neighbor to you even if you're against what I feel is right.