Yesterday, Dallin H. Oaks of The Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gave a landmark talk on religious freedom at Brigham Young University – Idaho. Elder Oaks reiterated the importance of preserving and maintaining religious liberty and stated,
It was the Christian principles of human worth and dignity that made possible the formation of the United States Constitution over 200 years ago, and only those principles in the hearts of a majority of our diverse population can sustain that constitution today.
Previously, it was noted that a vote against last year’s Prop 8 in California would create a “tyranny of tolerance” which would lead to “inevitable clashes between religious liberty and free speech.”1 Elder Oaks said,
. . . there are other reasons why the public square must be open to religious ideas and religious persons. As Richard John Neuhaus said many years ago, “In a democracy that is free and robust, an opinion is no more disqualified for being ‘religious’ than for being atheistic, or psychoanalytic, or Marxist, or just plain dumb.”
The transcript of his talk – in addition to links to many of the sources cited – can be found at Religious Freedom. As with previous articles, please leave your comments below.
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