Speaking out against immoral or unjust actions of political leaders has been the burden of prophets and disciples of God from time immemorial. It was for this very reason that many of them were persecuted. Some of them were stoned, some of them were burned, many were imprisoned. Nevertheless it was their God-given task, as watchmen on the towers, to speak up. It is certainly no different today.
Now undoubtedly Moroni could have pointed out many factors that led to the destruction of the people, but notice how he singled out the secret combinations, just as the Church today could point out many threats to peace, prosperity, and the spread of God’s work, but it has singled out the greatest threat as the godless conspiracy. There is no conspiracy theory in the Book of Mormon —it is a conspiracy fact.
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 is generally agreed that the most important single function of government is to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. But, what are those rights? And what is their source? Until these questions are answered, there is little likelihood that we can correctly determine how government can best secure them.
“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…