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Elder Oaks urges all Church members to defend religious freedom By Jill Adair For the Church News Published: Jan. 24, 2017 2:55 p.m. Updated: 16 hours ago 1 of 10 While speaking in Arizona Jan. 21, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles urged all Church members to take a stand in defense of religious freedom. View 10 Items While speaking in Arizona Jan. 21, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles urged  all Church members to take a stand in defense of religious freedom. TEMPE, ARIZ. Urging all Church members to take a stand in defense of religious freedom, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and other Church officials addressed more than 1,100 people at the Tempe Institute of Religion at Arizona State University on Jan. 21. Over 11,000 more, age 16 and older, viewed a live broadcast of the event at 81 stake ...

Coming Challenges to Religious Liberty: What’s on the Horizon? By Maurine Jensen Proctor  · September 13, 2016 This is an extremely important article that we hope you will share broadly. This article is based on Alexander Dusku’s talk of the same title from BYU Education Week. If there was an underlying theme to this year’s BYU Education Week—appearing again and again in talks–it was about threats to our religious freedom with LDS Public Affairs sponsoring 18 presentations on the subject. It was as if we didn’t get it the first time, we’d have multiple opportunities to be awakened—and alarmed. “Do you get it?” “Do you get it now?” This is not an area we can be in the least bit casual or think that it is somebody else’s problem or refuse to take the time to learn about. Alexander Dushku, an attorney for Kirton & McConkie that represents the Church in most of its legal affairs, said that there is a planetary clash—like two large bodi...

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland: 'Faith, Family and Religious Freedom' By R. Scott Lloyd LDS Church News Published: Thursday, Feb. 26 2015 10:10 p.m. MST  Church News Whatever their doctrinal differences, Christians need to work together in addressing society’s ills, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles declared Feb. 26 to a faith-based audience at Chapman University, an institution founded in 1861 by members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Elder Holland was the featured speaker at the 10th anniversary celebration of the university’s Fish Interfaith Center, addressing the topic “Faith, Family and Religious Freedom.” He delivered an address 10 years ago when the interfaith center was launched. “Whatever our religious affiliation, we all share concerns, dozens about the spread of pornography and the spread of poverty, of abuse and abortion, of illicit sexual transgression, of violence, crudity, cruelty and t...