What is the Mormon Church’s position on birth control?
Dear Gramps, My question comes from a non-Mormon who is a member now. I know we have been commanded by God to have no sex before marriage. What is the Mormon Church’s stand on birth control after marriage? Is that something that is left up to the couple, or is there something that Christ would have us do about this? I know that Adam of old was commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. I would like to have some more information on this. Your insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Austin, from Utah Dear Austin, David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals, p.487: Infidelity and sexual immorality are two principal evils that threaten to weaken and to wreck present-day civilization. Unfortunately, the trends of modern life are tending to disintegrate the very foundation of the Christian home. Sexual laxity among young people, birth control, and intemperance are its insidious and vicious enemies. When family life disintegrates, the foundation and bulwark of human society is undermined (Confere
