Elder Oaks Gets Scripture Lesson
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“Those who seek to change the foundation of marriage should not be allowed to pretend that those who defend the ancient order are trampling on civil rights.” So said LDS Apostle Dallin H. Oaks in his defence of the involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in political campaigns against gay marriage (”Transcript of Elder Dallin H. Oaks speech,” www.sltrib.com, Oct. 14).
Ummm … Has he read his own scriptures lately? Like verse 9 in Doctrine and Covenants 134: “We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.”
Julie L. Taggart
Draper
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