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* "When the frailties and imperfections of mortality are left behind, in the glorified state of the blessed hereafter, husband and wife will administer in their respective stations, seeing and understanding alike, and co–operating to the full in the government of their family kingdom. Then shall woman be recompensed in rich measure for all the injustice that womanhood has endured in mortality. Then shall woman reign by Divine right, a queen in the resplendent realm of her glorified state, even as exalted man shall stand, priest and king unto the Most High God. Mortal eye cannot see nor mind comprehend the beauty, glory, and majesty of a righteous woman made perfect in the celestial kingdom of God."<ref>James E. Talmage, "The Eternity of Sex," ''Young Woman's Journal'' 25 (October 1914), 602–3 as found in Joseph Smith, ''The Words of Joseph Smith'', comp. and ed. Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1980), 137 n. 4.</ref> | * "When the frailties and imperfections of mortality are left behind, in the glorified state of the blessed hereafter, husband and wife will administer in their respective stations, seeing and understanding alike, and co–operating to the full in the government of their family kingdom. Then shall woman be recompensed in rich measure for all the injustice that womanhood has endured in mortality. Then shall woman reign by Divine right, a queen in the resplendent realm of her glorified state, even as exalted man shall stand, priest and king unto the Most High God. Mortal eye cannot see nor mind comprehend the beauty, glory, and majesty of a righteous woman made perfect in the celestial kingdom of God."<ref>James E. Talmage, "The Eternity of Sex," ''Young Woman's Journal'' 25 (October 1914), 602–3 as found in Joseph Smith, ''The Words of Joseph Smith'', comp. and ed. Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1980), 137 n. 4.</ref> | ||
* "Some people are ignorant or vicious and apparently attempting to destroy the concept of masculinity and femininity. More and more girls dress, groom, and act like men. More and more men dress, groom, and act like women. The high purposes of life are damaged and destroyed by the growing unisex theory. God made man in his own image, male and female made he them. With relatively few accidents of nature, we are born male or female. The Lord knew best. Certainly, men and women who would change their sex status will answer to their Maker...."<ref>{{Ensign|author=Spencer W. Kimball|article=[https://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/1974/10/god-will-not-be-mocked?lang=eng God Will Not Be Mocked]|date=November 1974}}</ref> | * "Some people are ignorant or vicious and apparently attempting to destroy the concept of masculinity and femininity. More and more girls dress, groom, and act like men. More and more men dress, groom, and act like women. The high purposes of life are damaged and destroyed by the growing unisex theory. God made man in his own image, male and female made he them. With relatively few accidents of nature, we are born male or female. The Lord knew best. Certainly, men and women who would change their sex status will answer to their Maker...."<ref>{{Ensign|author=Spencer W. Kimball|article=[https://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/1974/10/god-will-not-be-mocked?lang=eng God Will Not Be Mocked]|date=November 1974}}</ref> | ||
+ | * "Dear brethren and sisters, the scriptures and the teachings of the Apostles and prophets speak of us in premortal life as sons and daughters, spirit children of God. Gender existed before, and did not begin at mortal birth."<ref>{{Ensign|author=Boyd K. Packer|date=November 1993|article=[https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1993/10/for-time-and-all-eternity.p1 For Time and All Eterntiy}}</ref> | ||
==="In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father"=== | ==="In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father"=== |
Did the Proclamation on the Family break new doctrinal ground, or merely reiterate doctrines long taught in the Church?
President Hinckley observed, on introducing the Proclamation:
The doctrines taught are, then, longstanding ones in the Church.
This article reviews each line of the Proclamation and presents a sample of past teachings on the same subject.
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