Calling not imminent in Proposition 8 effort

As it presented a satellite broadcast Wednesday night to California

members in support of Proposition 8, The Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints said organizing other members outside of California

to call that state's voters doesn't mean mass calling is imminent.On

the Nov. 4 state ballot, Proposition 8 calls for a California state

constitution amendment that "only marriage between a man and a woman is

valid or recognized in California."The LDS Church has joined

the state's Protect Marriage Coalition, whose leaders and members

include large contingents of Latter-day Saints, Catholics and

evangelical Protestants as well as other churches, community groups and

individuals supporting traditional marriage.Elders M. Russell

Ballard and Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder L.

Whitney Clayton of the Presidency of the Seventy participated in the

satellite broadcast.In addition to giving time and attention to

the doctrine of marriage, the broadcast also dealt with aspects of

religious liberties, impacts on children, coalition campaign efforts

and examples of what some California members already have been doing to

support the campaign, said Elder Clayton in one of several interviews

he conducted Wednesday afternoon.Specifically invited to the

broadcast were young single adult and young married adult members in

California and other members working in the grassroots campaign.Also,

the broadcast was made available to California college students in Utah

and several other western states "because they're registered voters in