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By Bob
McCue: I am reminded of what David
O. McKay said in a 1950s General Conference address in
reference to the case of a much more strident and unfaithful
member of the Mormon Church - the openly atheistic University
of Utah philosophy professor Sterling McMurrin. President McKay
had a short time before stymied attempts to excommunicate
McMurrin. In what many who heard him understood to be a
reference to McMurrin, he said:
"Ours is the responsibility ... to proclaim the truth that
each individual is ... entitled to freedom of thought, freedom
of speech, freedom of assembly; that he has the right to
worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. ...
organizations or churches which deprive the individual of these
inherent rights are not in harmony with God's will nor with his
revealed word." [Pres. David O. McKay, General Conference
1950] [Grant
Palmer Letters to Newspaper Editors at Rethinking
Mormonism]
Apostle Oaks Prohibition
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Dallin Oaks speech on Religous Freedom - Letter to Editor
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