In the latest news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we talk about book bans, Tim Ballard, Tonga, General Conference, the gold plates and more.
. “We, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, should not only avoid pushing for them, but we [also] should actively fight against them.”
A "read banned books" sign on the wall at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City in 2020. Blogger Sam Brunson cites several reasons why Latter-day Saints shouldn't support book bans.• Such prohibitions are unconstitutional and are treated unkindly by history. • Latter-day Saints — and their theology — are big believers in agency, letting people decide for themselves what to think, do and, in this case, read.“I didn’t delegate authority to you,”
, “to decide what my children can read, what they can experience, and how they exercise their agency.”
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