Latter-day Liberty: A Gospel Approach to Government and Politics
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photo credit: ww3billiard Like parched lips to the water fountain, insolvent states are lapping up the dollars coming from the federal government in the latest round of socialist thievery and intergenerational slavery. Rather than face the hard task of balancing their own budgets based on available tax revenue, they welcome the (supposedly) free money as [...]
photo credit: uma konappalli The Book of Mormon is a compendium of ancient scripture written specifically for our day. Those whose writings it contains prophesied and warned of what would later come, and their words “cry from the dust” regarding what we should learn from what they witnessed and lived through. President Hinckley once spoke [...]
photo credit: m o d e Last night, the Sutherland Institute and Equality Utah held a debate to present each side’s ideas, field each others’ questions, and respond to some public questions as well. Each camp seemed to have an overriding theme connecting their ideas and arguments. Equality Utah’s theme was framed by Will Carlson, [...]
photo credit: sknol A common argument made against the LDS Church in Utah and the prominence and influence of its members in local politics is that it borderlines on a theocracy, with such a high percentage of state politicians being members of the Church. Whenever the Church decides to make a political statement or clarify [...]
photo credit: Jill Greenseth The world is falling apart. At least, that’s what you might think if you pay attention to the news. Each day we are virtual, passive witnesses to sheer chaos: fires, murders, suicide bombings, military combat, earthquakes, economic turmoil, immorality displayed as public virtue, government corruption, and the list goes on. Still [...]
photo credit: Caucas Three months ago, an organization called Equality Utah launched a campaign they titled the Common Ground Initiative. This initiative is a package of bills being considered in Utah’s current legislative session, each of which confers some additional privileges and opportunities to homosexual couples. Proponents of these bills are implementing one of the [...]
photo credit: e20ci To my “representatives”: I wrap that word in quotes because I’m not so sure that you actually represent me. Theoretically you do, since I live in some pre-defined boundaries to which you pertain, and because you convinced my neighbors that you’d be a good fit for office. But in my mind, representation [...]
photo credit: MashGet The GOP is dying a slow, necessary death. Any organization that completely and consistently backtracks on its mission statement and core principles is little more than an empty shell of self-serving powermongers anxious to extract whatever last bit of personal gain they can before its dissolution. Like a small crack in a [...]
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