Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are encouraged to pay attention to political circumstances and to let their voices be heard, especially on moral issues. President Hinckley has counseled:
Now, I want to say to you, and I say it with a plea in my heart, get involved. Get involved on the side of righteousness and truth and decency and sobriety and virtue. You, and others like you, are the great hope of this world. . . .
The problem with most of us is that we are afraid. We want to do the right thing, but we are troubled by fears and the world drifts about us . . .
'Be not afraid, only believe.' I commend to you these wonderful words of the Lord as you think of your responsibilities and opportunities. (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 128–29)
Now, I want to say to you, and I say it with a plea in my heart, get involved. Get involved on the side of righteousness and truth and decency and sobriety and virtue. You, and others like you, are the great hope of this world. . . .
The problem with most of us is that we are afraid. We want to do the right thing, but we are troubled by fears and the world drifts about us . . .
'Be not afraid, only believe.' I commend to you these wonderful words of the Lord as you think of your responsibilities and opportunities. (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 128–29)
The Book of Mormon warns of the dangers of allowing the voices of the wicked to determine the direction of our politics and laws. In the book of Helaman, we read:
For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.
Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction. (Helaman 5:2–3)
There is a similar warning in Mosiah 29:27:
If the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
As inhabitants of the Promised Land, as citizens of this free nation and as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, much has been and will be expected of Church members in the United States of America. For those looking for a place to start, the primary political duty of the Saints, as the Lord has declared, is to diligently seek out "honest men and good men . . . and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil" (Doctrine and Covenants 98:10).
For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.
Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction. (Helaman 5:2–3)
There is a similar warning in Mosiah 29:27:
If the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
As inhabitants of the Promised Land, as citizens of this free nation and as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, much has been and will be expected of Church members in the United States of America. For those looking for a place to start, the primary political duty of the Saints, as the Lord has declared, is to diligently seek out "honest men and good men . . . and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil" (Doctrine and Covenants 98:10).
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