On Agency

I recently read a blog that I found about agency by a member of the Church. I really feel strongly about writing about this topic as it relates to politics. I know, I was going to be done with politics, especially writing about things that some may disagree with. But I need to do this. And hopefully this will be it. I have been too riled up this past week!
I have noticed that many members of the Church believe that laws should not be passed that will "take away" a person's agency. This is brought up again because of the passage of Proposition 8 in a few states, banning gay marriage. Those people in the Church who are against 8's passage believe that people should be left to exercise their agency, even though we find homosexuality morally wrong. So, I want to say a few things about that.
First, the Church, along with other faiths and organizations, lobbied for its passage. If we are not supposed to enact laws about moral issues then why did the the Church join forces to work for the proposition's passage? It is because we have a duty as members of the Church to stand up for that which we believe to be morally right. We do not sit idly by and watch the world travel a path to immorality and call it agency. That is never how it is has been and not how it will ever be. Our Church leaders felt like it was important enough for the Church to get involved in.
Second, no one's agency has been taken away by the passage of this. Even if something is illegal, every person still has agency to follow the law or break it. Agency is and can never be taken away from us. It is our gift in this life. People are still free to be homosexual, to live together, to have relationships, etc. They still have their agency.
Third, if we start splitting hairs like this, then there are many other moral issues and laws that we would have to examine. What about a person's agency to do drugs or be a prostitute. What about abortion? Morality has always been a part of law making. We believe as a society that it is wrong to do drugs. So it is illegal. We believe that prostitution is immoral. It is illegal. If those people who believe that everyone should have agency in all things, then these too should be legal. But, that is how it is. I know that there has always been a faction of society that says that morality should never be legislated, but what would that leave us as a society? Soon you would be left with nothing to legislate and society full of wickedness.
Fourth, if people are so upset about the right for people to marry whom they want, then why is it okay to outlaw polygamy (I don't mean the marrying 13-year-olds off kind...)? I'm not saying it should be legal at all, I'm just saying that if people feel so strongly about protecting everyone's right to marry how they want, then that would mean that those same people should support polygamists' rights as well.
Being members of the Church, we are blessed with the knowledge that our Church leaders are called of God and inspired with what we as a Church and society need. It is our duty as members to pray about their guidance and know for ourselves that they are indeed inspired. I am glad that we are led by those whose ways are not mingled with the wisdom of man when it comes to morality and agency. We aren't left to figure out what is right and wrong based on the shifting tides of popular thought in the world. We have a fixed mark to look to and that is very much a blessing.