Friday, June 04, 2010

Immigration v. Illegal Immigration and the LDS

Some Latino Mormons Say Church Should Take A Stand On Immigration

"Some Utah Latinos, who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, are calling for President Thomas S. Monson to take an official, public position on immigration."

The LDS Church already has, in the 12th Article of Faith:
"We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."

And in the 13th Article of Faith:
"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men..."

The article continues:
“The church needs to have a position in favor or opposed to Latinos,”

Huh? The Church takes no stand for or against any ethnic group or nationality. They take a position for all people, or it wouldn't be a GLOBAL Church.
The only position the Church CAN take is to support, honor, and obey the LAW of the LAND in which the Church is operating.
It has nothing to do with being in favor of or opposed to Latinos.
All are welcome into the LDS Church. But if people are here illegally, and if they are using stolen identities and working illegally in the US THEN there is an issue that needs to be discussed within the Church: maybe the Church should remind these people that if they break the law, they can lose their Church membership, or at a minimum, their temple recommend.

The LDS Church will always side with "what is true and right", not with what someone wants to be right, when it clearly isn't.

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