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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
involved in what? the political effort?
I find it curious that of the myriad moral problems in the world, the church focuses almost exclusively on gay marriage.
For me, it's not an issue that keeps me up at night.
World hunger and disease takes a back seat to denying the clothing company FCUK a trademark, in my ward.
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The Church really has few political efforts. Most of its efforts are involved in the threefold purpose of the Church, proclaiming the Gospel, perfecting the Saints, and redeeming our dead. Everything else is tangential.
BTW, I'm not involved in the Church's political efforts either. However, I understand why the Church speaks out on that issue. Symbolically, if this issue fails, it will become harder and harder to preach the Gospel, as those living in the world will not relate to our message. If you have a world even more licentious than it is now, how could one ever expect somebody to be chaste?
Chastity is probably a word most teenagers don't even know and the concept of saving yourself for marriage is laughable to most of them. Most couples now probably don't even know how to be faithful to one another. If you add for it to be commonplace for gender confusion and same sex relations to be more common, we won't have anybody at all who could ever join.
We may be fighting a losing battle, where no matter what our efforts, nobody will care about anything, but shouldn't the Church try?
And we will never have significant enough efforts to make a dent in world hunger. It helps when it can but this will never be a focus of primary emphasis. We are not social egalitarians.
We will seek to ease suffering, but we know we can never eliminate it.