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==The Church does not take an official position on this issue== | ==The Church does not take an official position on this issue== | ||
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This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency: | This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency: | ||
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:''Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling.'' | :''Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling.'' | ||
− | :—J. Reuben Clark, Jr. "When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?" | + | :—J. Reuben Clark, Jr., "Church Leaders and the Scriptures," [orginal title "When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?"] ''Immortality and Eternal Life: Reflections from the Writings and Messages of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.'', Vol, 2, (1969-70): 221; address to Seminary and Institute Teachers, BYU (7 July 1954); reproduced in ''Church News'' (31 July 1954); also reprinted in ''Dialogue'' 12/2 (Summer 1979): 68–81. |
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+ | Harold B. Lee was emphatic that only one person can speak for the Church: | ||
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+ | :All over the Church you're being asked this: "What does the Church think about this or that?" Have you ever heard anybody ask that question? "What does the Church think about the civil rights legislation?" "What do they think about the war?" "What do they think about drinking Coca-Cola or Sanka coffee?" Did you ever hear that? "What do they think about the Democratic Party or ticket or the Republican ticket?" Did you ever hear that? "How should we vote in this forthcoming election?" Now, with most all of those questions, if you answer them, you're going to be in trouble. Most all of them. Now, it's the smart man that will say, "There's only one man in this church that speaks for the Church, and I'm not that one man." | ||
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+ | :I think nothing could get you into deep water quicker than to answer people on these things, when they say, "What does the Church think?" and you want to be smart, so you try to answer what the Church's policy is. Well, you're not the one to make the policies for the Church. You just remember what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians. He said, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" ({{b|1|Corinthians|2|2}}). Well now, as teachers of our youth, you're not supposed to know anything except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. On that subject you're expected to be an expert. You're expected to know your subject. You're expected to have a testimony. And in that you'll have great strength. If the President of the Church has not declared the position of the Church, then you shouldn't go shopping for the answer. ({{THBL1|start=445}}) | ||
This was recently reiterated by the First Presidency (who now approves all statements published on the Church's official website): | This was recently reiterated by the First Presidency (who now approves all statements published on the Church's official website): | ||
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:—LDS Newsroom, "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," ''lds.org'' (4 May 2007) {{link|url=http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/approaching-mormon-doctrine}}] | :—LDS Newsroom, "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," ''lds.org'' (4 May 2007) {{link|url=http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/approaching-mormon-doctrine}}] | ||
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This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency:
Harold B. Lee was emphatic that only one person can speak for the Church:
This was recently reiterated by the First Presidency (who now approves all statements published on the Church's official website):
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