LDS Apostle to Right-Wing Crazies: Store food and not guns
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:03 am
LDS apostle tells Mormons: Stock up on food, not ammo
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Published: September 17, 2012 02:29PM
Updated: September 17, 2012 02:48PM
LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks cautioned Mormons against joining or supporting “right-wing groups who mistakenly apply prophecies about the last days to promote efforts to form paramilitary or other organizations.”
Such groups could “undermine the authority of public officials,” Oaks said Sunday at a regional Mormon conference broadcast from the Marriott Center on Brigham Young University’s Provo campus, “in the event of extraordinary emergencies or even in cases of simple disagreement with government policy.”
Latter-day Saints should not “substitute [their] own organizations for the political and military authorities put in place by constitutional government and processes,” the apostle said.
After all, the LDS Church’s food-storage program is about amassing a year’s supply of food and water, Oaks reminded the thousands watching in the giant arena, not “arms and ammunition.”
Peggy Fletcher Stack
Wonder if this will cause a rebellion among some of our extreme brethren?