On October 13, 2009 Dallin H. Oaks, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church spoke at BYU-Idaho where he took the gay marriage debate to a whole new level of ridiculous. In his talk titled, Religious Freedom he compared the backlash against the LDS Church for it’s participation in the [...]
Since Jeffrey R. Holland’s conference talk the name Ethan Smith has been more active across the blogosphere than normal. Unfortunately not many people know who he was (or Solomon Spaudling for that matter). LDS who know the name often don’t understand how Pastor Smith really plays into the narrative around the Book of Mormon— and [...]
In a recent General Conference talk LDS Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland claimed that Joseph and Hyrum faced with their imminent deaths WOULD NOT have maintained their support for the Book of Mormon as it would have been risking blasphemy to the supreme being they were expecting to soon meet.
Here’s the quote:
As one of a thousand [...]
