Agency is more than responsibility for decision; its allowing others their agency, even if you don't understand their choice.

My dearest children. Please let me say how much I love you, each one of you. My husband and my family are the only things that matter to me at all. The Temple and the Plan of Salvation help create and preserve my family for time and all eternity. That is the driving force in my life. I not only believe that, I know that. It's all that matters to me.
May I share. A sister bore testimony that she was proud to go wave a sign and stand up for the Savior, doing what the prophet requested. It made me stop and think. I was more nervous than proud. I don't like confrontation. I thought about the large and spacious building but I also thought about the New Testament Peter. We often wonder how Peter could have denied his Savior 3 times. But its easier for me to understand that now. Its very hard to make phone calls and have people yell at you and tell you that you are evil. Its very hard to wave signs and have people swear at you and flip you off and now, threaten you with bodily harm.
I'm sure you know that the temples have been targeted. There is a call for a demonstration this weekend here--the threat is to burn the "Mormon Temples" to the ground. The facility is granite, so it won't burn but... Other threats include "long lists, long memories and long knives". Yards have been vandalized. The Bee called for Scott Eckern to be fired yesterday. He resigned . Other businesses are being threatened with boycot--Shepperd Neilson insurance, Leatherbys and others.
I personally have no problem with domestic partnerships and civil unions. Property rights, visitation rights, etc. are all important and should be and are protected in this state. But my personal definition of marriage is not a legal contract. It is a partnership between a man, a woman and God. The purpose of which is to created an eternal family unit; to provide a home for children AND to provide protection, nurturing , support and love for all members of that family unit; children and parents.
For me, this movement is Satan making an even bigger attach on the Family and the Plan of Salvation than he ever did with greed, selfishness, pornography, unfaithfulness, "women's emancipation" or anything else. He seeks to make us miserable--so he'll have lots of company and to cause pain to the Savior and to our Heavenly Father. Destruction is his goal.
I now find tears in my eyes and pain in my heart. We don't live in Eden. We live in the real world. And life is getting harder and harder. Previous counsel from the brethren only confirms what is happening and I'm afraid it will only become more difficult. I too, as John recently expressed, am grateful for a Prophet and for the Holy Ghost. He can counsel me and I can receive personal confirmation, for myself, through the Spirit. The Savior will support my wobbly knees and my faint heart and give me comfort and courage. I can smile even if I don't feel like it and I can go where I need to go and do what I need to do.
We love you all so much and pray for you always, in words and in our hearts.
Mom and Dad