The Family: A Proclamation to the World

In September 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley read “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” at a general meeting of the Relief Society. He prefaced the reading by saying:

“With so much of sophistry that is passed off as truth, with so much of deception concerning standards and values, with so much of allurement and enticement to take on the slow stain of the world, we have felt to warn and forewarn. In furtherance of this we of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles now issue a proclamation to the Church and to the world as a declaration and reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices relative to the family which the prophets, seers, and revelators of this church have repeatedly stated throughout its history” (“Stand Strong against the Wiles of the World,”Ensign, Nov. 1995, 100).