On Saturday, September 23, 1995, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” was given. It was in a worldwide broadcast for women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I heard the broadcast live that evening.
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| President Gordon B. Hinckley presented "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" September 23, 2025, screenshot from here |
At the time, I had a church assignment (a calling) to do
media press releases for our local area. It became an assignment to send out
press releases related to this proclamation. A proclamation from the Church is
a rather rare thing; there have been only 6, and this was the 5th;
three were in the 1800s. So that was newsworthy. But the proclamation’s content
didn’t seem at the time that newsworthy. The importance of family to society
was so basic, it was like announcing that grass is green. But what we can see
now, with thirty years of hindsight, is that it was prophetic. Society has
changed so much since that day. I believe that makes the Family Proclamation
even more potent today, and therefore even more worth sharing.
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