Religious freedom under siege, Mormon leader says

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LA Times:

Dallin H. Oaks describes an 'informal conspiracy of correctness to scrub out references to God' in the U.S. Many Americans find little evidence that religious liberty is threatened.
Mitchell Landsberg
2/5/11

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threw itself into the public square in 2008, when it played a central role in the campaign for Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage in California. Mormon support helped win that battle, but one of the church's top leaders is worried about losing a much larger struggle.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, one of 12 leaders, known as apostles, who help govern the Mormon Church, delivered his message Friday in a speech at Chapman University in Orange: The 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion is under siege, he said, threatened by a growing secularization of society and constrained by the inroads made by a vigorous gay rights movement.

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Oaks, a former law professor and Utah Supreme Court justice, has been making speeches along these lines for more than 25 years, and says the climate has been getting worse for religious rights. "It was apparent 25 years ago, and it is undeniable today," he said.

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Transcript of Elder Dallin H. Oaks' Speech Given at Chapman University School of Law

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Hugh Hewitt Show

Elder Dallin Oaks

(note) Elder Dallin Oaks starts at the 7:50 point)

 

Part 2

 

 

 

Bonus

 

Randall Wallace: Keynote speaker National Prayer Breakfast

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Just wait until homosexual "marriage" is forced on the nation by judicial fiat.

 

Every church which refuses to "marry" the queers will be sued on a continual basis and have their tax exempt status revoked. It will be the liberals ultimate end run around the Constitution; virtual elimination of religion (save a few liberal denominations or ones such as Buddhism) without the need for a Constitutional amendment.

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Just wait until homosexual "marriage" is forced on the nation by judicial fiat.

 

Every church which refuses to "marry" the queers will be sued on a continual basis and have their tax exempt status revoked. It will be the liberals ultimate end run around the Constitution; virtual elimination of religion (save a few liberal denominations or ones such as Buddhism) without the need for a Constitutional amendment.

 

 

That's ok. What they don't understand is The Church thrives when persecuted.