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Nelson: “Marriage is the legal wedding of one man and one woman” By Jason Clark April 2006 Five days after defining marriage as "the legal wedding of one man and one woman," a senior LDS apostle married a woman 26 years his junior in a Mormon temple, thus becoming eternally bound to two women. "The Lord declared that marriage is the legal wedding of one man and one woman," emphasized Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in an April 1 speech as he condemned same-sex marriage. "Worldly trends to define marriage in some other way would sadly serve to destroy the institution of marriage. Such schemes are contrary to the plan of God." Five days later Nelson (82) knelt at an altar in the Salt Lake City Temple and married Wendy Lee Watson (56), a BYU professor with degrees in nursing and gerontology. "According to Mormon theology, in the afterlife Mormon men will be entitled to all the wives they married under the 'new and everlasting covenant of marriage,' and can have eternal, never-ending progeny with all of them," reads the new website www.removenelson.net. "Elder Nelson is thus eligible to have celestial progeny with both his first wife Dantzel White, who died last year, and with his new bride Wendy Lee Watson." Elder Dallin H. Oaks, another senior apostle who also condemns same-sex marriage, became a celestial polygamist in 2000, when he married his second wife Kristen Meredith McMain. In a January 2002 speech Oaks called McMain "the eternal companion who now stands at my side." See also:  “An Irony in the Church”: Dallin H. Oaks, Polygamy, and Same-Sex Marriage LDS Rhetoric on Homosexuality |
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