Ezra Taft Benson discusses some principles and laws of the celestial kingdom and “some of the fallacies of their perverted counterfeits in the world”, which counterfeits include both communism and socialism. Elder Benson warns of the dangers of both of these political philosophies calling them “incompatible with man’s liberty”.
“It’s a little frustrating from our perspective to have people saying ‘well is he going to follow some kind of a policy line that the Church has?’ We have a long record in the Church…
“We as a Church do not get involved in political candidates of any persuasion. The reason we don’t is because we have Republicans and we have Democrats, and we have independents, and we have Libertarians,…
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles discusses sustaining the U.S. constitution and its relationship to religious freedom.
“The civic duty of every latter-day saint, regardless of where they live, or including any country they may live in, is to be actively involved in the political process. That meaning that they study the…