Protect the Family

### Readings 1

1. *"We warn that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God."*
2. *"...we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets."*
3. *"We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society."*

### Session 17

1. Sometimes you're involved in a fight you don't choose.
2. *"...the family is under attack. All across the world families are falling apart. The place to begin to improve society is in the home. Children do, for the most part, what they are taught. We are trying to make the world better by making the family stronger."*
3. *"This generation will be called upon to defend the doctrine of the family as never before. If they don’t know the doctrine, they can’t defend it."*

### Podcast 5

1. Marry completely and nurture our marital relationship.
2. *"These same blessings will help us as we reach outward from our own families into our communities and the world to help protect and promote measures in defense of the eternal family."*
3. *"For if the true and righteous people are silent, those who use truth in unrighteousness will prevail."*

### Readings 2

1. *"But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than in infidel."*
2. *"You can say the same for capitalism... It works because Americans have been taught in their churches that they should keep their promises and not tell lies. An advanced economy cannot function if people cannot expect that when they sign contracts, the other people will voluntarily uphold their obligations. Capitalism works because most people voluntarily keep their promises."*
3. *"Indeed, the longer I live the more convinced I am that as Christians we play into the devil’s hand to let lesser differences obscure chances for greater unity, to let animosity canker our inherent brotherhood and sisterhood, to let sectarian tradition destroy our collective desire to go about 'doing good.'"*

### Session 18

1. Violating covenant of chastity, abusing a spouse or children, or failing to fulfill family responsibilities makes one accountable to God.
2. There is a terrible, inexcusable, and evil phenomenon of physical and sexual abuse. It is unnecessary. It is unjustifiable. It is indefensible.
3. D&C 2:1-3
	1. *Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.*
	2. *And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.*
	3. *If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.*

### Deep-Dive 4

1. *"There are many colliding social and cultural forces in our day that contribute to this anti-religious condition… part of this shift away from respect for traditional religious beliefs- and even the right to express those religious beliefs- has come because of a conspicuous shift toward greater and greater preoccupation with the existential circumstances of this world and less and less concern for- or even belief in- the circumstances, truths, and requirements of the next."*
2. *"It is imperative that those of us who believe in God and in the reality of right and wrong unite more effectively to protect our religious freedom to preach and practice our faith in God and the principles of right and wrong He has established."*
3. *"We believe in all truth, no matter to what subject it may refer. No sect or religious denomination in the world possesses a single principle of truth that we do not accept or that we will reject. We are willing to receive all truth, from whatever source it may come; for truth will stand, truth will endure."*