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Why Latter-day Saints should be skeptical about using Adam and Eve to define marriage and gender

“Modern interpretations that say that the Adam and Eve story supports heterosexual monogamy,” says religion professor Taylor Petrey, “are importing their own views.”

(Olivier Matthys for the AP) Visitors examine the painting "Adam and Eve" by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp, Belgium. Latter-day Saint leaders have used Adam and Eve to support a wide range of sometimes-conflicting ideals about marriage and gender.

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