The Proclamation teaches that gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose, a gender or sex presents at least one way we will differ in the eternities.
Here is a list of things that the chapter lists that we believe to be true about the equality, both here and in Zion, of men and women in God's kingdom: equal in blessings, equal in power, intelligence, wisdom, dignity, respect, giving counsel, giving consent, agency, value, potential, authority, exalted fullness, virtue, spirituality, and spiritual gifts; equal in temporal things in Zion; and equal heirs with Christ.
Elder Earl C. Tingey said, " You must not misunderstand what the Lord meant when Adam was told he was to have a helpmeet. A helpmeet it a companion suited to or equal to us. We walk side by side with a helpmeet, not one before or behind the other. A helpmeet results in an absolute equal partnership between a husband and a wife. Eve was to be equal to Adam as a husband and wife are to be equal to each other.
"A marriage of equal partners will also be one in which the partners help one another in their stewardships, indeed, are obligated to help one another as equal partners."
My parents have an equal partnership. One thing I remember from my childhood was that when we would ask my mom if we could have a friend sleep over, she always said let me ask your dad first. They made these decisions together. I cannot wait until I can have an equal partnership with my future spouse and we can raise our kids in love and righteousness.
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