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By Real Courchesne

HINCKLEY: All right.

KING: Many religious leaders are now speaking out. In fact, a major church this morning said he should resign. What, President Hinckley, are your thoughts on President Clinton?

HINCKLEY: Well, I feel very sorry for him in the first place. Here's a man of great talent and capacity who has evidently just hurt himself so seriously that it must be a terrible thing for him. Personally, I forgive him. The Lord has said, I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you, it's required to forgive all men. And in that sense I forgive him of any offenses committed against me. But he still has accountability. He's accountable to the Congress. He's accountable to the people of the United States who elected him. He's accountable to God. I believe that. And that's what he must face.

Up to this point President Hinckley has valid points. The US President should obey the laws of his own government. If some laws can not be obeyed even by government leaders, if they are not agreeing with God's law and do not correspond to the life of the majority of the people of America, I suggest that they should be changed accordingly. But according to the Bible President Clinton did nothing wrong.

KING: If the charge, as we have heard it, that -- just what he admitted too, obviously, that part is true. If that's it, there are some saying he should resign. Some saying he shouldn't. Do you think he should leave the post if he has morally impaired it?

HINCKLEY: Let me say that I still believe that right is right, and wrong is wrong. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. These aren't suggestions, these are commandments.

The Scriptures teaches us that fornication is heterosexual intercourse performed between unmarried or married people with a married woman. Adultery is to be with, to stay with, to live with, to take away, another man's wife.

In opposition to the bible The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints teaches that when heterosexual intercourse is performed between unmarried people, it falls in the category of fornication. If the same act is committed by married people it falls in the category of adultery.

President Kimball said:

Chapter Five
The Sin Next to Murder
Premarital heterosexual intercourse is usually in the category of fornication which is illicit sexual intercourse between the unmarried. Adultery is usually defined as this act when committed by married people other than with their respective marriage partners. The Bible seems often to use the terms adultery and fornication interchangeably.

FORNICATION:

Matthew said that a wife a marred woman having sexual intercourse with other men then her husband commits fornication. not adultery as the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Lather-Day Saints proclaim.

Matthew 5:32
32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

In other words Matthew said, except if a wife (a married woman) commits fornication, except if she have sexual intercourse with someone else then her husband, he (the husband) should not divorce her.

The same definition applies to Matthew 19:9, And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it be] for fornication, (except [it be] for sexual intercourse with an other man then her husband), and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Adultery applies only when a man takes or appropriates or steals for himself a married woman, who is another man's wife or when a man leaving his wife for marrying another woman when his wife has not commited fornication (sexual intercourse with an other man). Fornication will not apply when a man is having sexual intercourse with a unmarried woman, a free woman. Fornication will not apply if a man keeps his wife when marrying another.

1 Corinthians 5:1
1 It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have (that one should hold, keep, enjoy) his father's wife. (His father's wife, is a married woman). Even if the father at this point could divorce his wife for having sex with his son, Here Paul uses the word fornication to describe the behavior of the father's wife instead of using the word adultery.

According to the Bible, if Monica Lewenskie was not married or had no vow to an another man at the time of their sexual encounter, President Clinton and Monica could not have committed adultery. They could not even have committed fornication because the Bible, the Book of Mormon and D&C do not specify one single case when a married man committed fornication when having sexual intercourse with an unmarried, or a free, or a virgin woman.

ADULTERY:

Leviticus 20:10
10 And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Ezekiel 16:32
32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

In other words Ezekiel said:
32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh (which chooses, which receives into her body and her mind, which adopts) strangers instead (in substitution) of her husband commits adultery. But if the same wife had not substitute or exchange her husband for strangers if she only had sexual intercourse with strangers while living a normal life with her husband she would have commit fornication. If adultery was for a married man to have sexual intercourse with an unmarried, or a free, or a virgin woman all the prophets of the Old Testament would have been adulterous for they had many concubines. But only did they not committed adultery they did not even committed fornication.

If the US Congress had not tempered with God’s law in 1890, the Clinton Lewenskie affair would never been born.

Although polygamy was legal and had been practiced for much of history in many parts of the world, to restrain the growth of the Mormon Church, the U.S. Congress created a new law that made polygamy illegal in the U.S. and started to seize their properties. In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court validated the seizure of Church property under the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Because plural marriage was leading toward the economic and political destruction of the Church, President Wilford Woodruff proclaimed that the Church had discontinued plural marriage and presented The Manifesto of 1890.

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