When a man and a woman join together in marriage, a family is created. The family is possible because of covenants of fidelity, love and loyalty. Ideally, these covenants bind partners for life and are not entered into lightly.
Marriage is also called holy matrimony for good reason. It is a special, sacred bond that unites two people, requires the very best attributes of both partners to make it work. Patience, virtue, love, tenderness, kindness, unselfishness, fidelity, honesty, integrity, putting one's spouse and children above one's self and all others. Indeed as children are raised, it is the responsibility of the parents to do the best they can to instill in their children these attributes.
There are those living homosexual lifestyles who desire these things. Others, however, only desire to use marriage as window dressing to sanitize or legitimize a lifestyle that is the antithesis of the nature of holy matrimony, to have one partner in name only but still have multiple sex partners on the side or engage in any sexual behavior they can dream up.
Homosexual lifestyle and holy matrimony cannot be mixed together and still maintain the sacred nature of marriage.
John Bowers
West Valley City