Today in Mormon History - Feb 16

[Same-Sex Marriage] Rex E. Lee, issues a position paper arguing for the limitation of marriage to opposite-sex partners. (1)
-- 15 years ago today - Feb 16, 1996

Wilford Woodruf writes while in England of "the awful Judgments that await the Nations. WAR WAR is [at] the door between England & America. O Lord Deliver us." (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Feb 16, 1841

Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith have vision of Father and Son while translating the Old and New Testaments (with Rigdon transcribing). Levi Hancock says he was with Rigdon during the translation of the Bible. (3)
-- 180 years ago today - Feb 16, 1831


1 - Crapo, Richley, Chronology Of Mormon / LDS Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/?q=node/59
2 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"


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