H. W. Naisbitt condemnds "foeticide, infanticide and abortion" in a sermon against "monogamic nations."
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Source
- Henry W. Naisbitt LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed VerbatimDirect
- Reference
H. W. Naisbitt, "Communities Are Made Up of Family Organizations—the Marriage Relationship Instituted By the Almighty—Descent of the Human Family From God—Plural Marriage System of Ancient Israel—Potency of Love—Eternity of Marriage Necessarily Leads to Plural Marriage—Polygamic Form of Marriage Most Prevalent in the World—From Whence Monogamy is Derived—Monogamy Sometimes Necessary Fruits of Monogamy and Plural Marriage Compared—the Marriage Covenant Changed From a Religious Rite to a Civil Contract—Marriage Requires the Sanction of the Holy Priesthood—the Saints Should not Marry Outside the Church," March 8, 1885, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Daniel H. Wells, 1886), 26:123
- Scribe/Publisher
- John Irvine
- People
- Henry W. Naisbitt
- Audience
- Reading Public, Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
PDF- Transcription
And if a tree is to be judged by its fruits, what of the whoredoms, the adultery, the fornication, the prostitution of women in monogamic nations? What of sexual diseases, of blighted lives, of martyred women, of little graves dotting every hillside and the resting places of the dead? What of foeticide, infanticide and abortion? What of the decimated power and numbers of the best society, what of their liasons and their divorce courts, and other damning features which cling closely to the skirts of modern Sodoms, the paragons and promoters of monogamic marriage?
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