343. More about the LDS Church News Conference, and it's implications, from Meridian Magazine
Yesterday I posted news about the LDS Church news release on religious discrimination. Today Meridian Magazine has much of the same, and also other happenings which show what an alarming thing is happening in our own country. We pray for religious freedom in our country and all over the world! Rare News Conference: Why Church Leaders are Alarmed about Diminishing Religious Freedom By Maurine Proctor · January 28, 2015 It is a fairly rare event for the LDS Church to hold a press conference, but Tuesday three Apostles and a member of the General Young Women’s presidency addressed something they consider alarming—the steady erosion of America’s treasured religious freedom and the increasing “tensions and polarization” between advocates of religious freedom and gay rights. What’s at stake is whether millions of people with “diverse backgrounds and different views and values will live together in relative harmony for the foreseeable future” or whether the fabric of o