Origin from 1995
Seventeen years after Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood ban for Black members in 1978, already recorded here, and seventeen years before the Church lowered its minimum missionary age in 2012, also recorded here, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued its clearest modern statement on doctrine and family. On 23 September 1995, at the General Relief Society Meeting in Salt Lake City, President Gordon B. Hinckley read The Family: A Proclamation to the World on behalf of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Church's fifth formal proclamation, stating that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that gender is an essential characteristic of premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose. The Church's own published text records the proclamation and the date it was first read. M. David Huston's peer reviewed study in Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought, situates the proclamation within the mid 1990s debates over marriage and traces how Church discourse on family form continued to develop in the decades after.
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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account StatusSourced to the subject's own accountEstablished marks the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issuing The Family, A Proclamation to the World, read by President Gordon B. Hinckley at the General Relief Society Meeting in Salt Lake City on 23 September 1995, a milestone between Official Declaration 2 ending the priesthood ban for Black members in 1978, already recorded here, and the Church lowering its minimum missionary age in 2012, also recorded here. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Adds a milestone in Latter-day Saint history between Official Declaration 2 ending the priesthood ban for Black members in 1978 and the Church lowering its minimum missionary age in 2012, both already recorded here: the Church issuing The Family, A Proclamation to the World, read by President Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City on 23 September 1995.
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