I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the café. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother--cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote:The mainstream media is referencing Ezra Taft Benson's 1987 talk "To the mother's of Zion." do they not realize that talk was never official doctrine?
I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the café. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother--cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.
Ouch! I wonder how widely this little gem will be reported?
"... cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children."
The only thing that would be better is if that "precious husband" had two or three wives keeping the home fires (and the sheets) warm.
"I do not want you to think that I am very righteous, for I am not." Joseph Smith (History of the Church 5:401)
The mainstream media is referencing Ezra Taft Benson's 1987 talk "To the mother's of Zion." do they not realize that talk was never official doctrine?
You sure it's not also found in an official publication?
Depends what you mean by official publication. Official publications of yesteryear are not necessarily publications classed as official today. Right?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Many other quotes in the article were doctrinal and with regards to Benson's 1953 remarks, there is a 1987 Ensign. The Proclamation on the Family, also referenced in the article says essentially the same thing.
No need. Truth is eternal. It will always be the ideal for the man to be the bread winner and the mom to raise the children and for there to be no homosexual relationships or no socialism etc.