Tribune columnist Gordon Monson sees an anti-Trump message in the recent letter from Utah LDS Church leaders urging members to vote for candidates of integrity and set aside party politics.
Church leaders deserve praise for this — and previous — counsel, and voters would do well to heed it.
, church members in Republican-heavy Utah are being urged via a message to be read to Latter-day Saint congregations not to vote for Republicans merely because they are Republican or for Democrats merely because they are Democrat. From left, Dallin H. Oaks, Russell M. Nelson and Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency sit on the rostrum before General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April 2022. The three leaders have warned members against straight-ticket voting.
“Merely voting a straight ticket or voting based on ‘tradition’ without careful study of candidates and their positions on important issues,”In short, church leaders are telling folks who vote, by way of my decoding device, not to be deceived, not to be dumb, not to join the herd and vote for a certain party because that’s what Mom and Dad and Grandpa LaVerl and Aunt LaVerne did.
What the church is saying, in so many words, is: Don’t vote for Trump because he’s a Republican. Don’t vote for any Republican because she or he is a Republican. The same instruction goes for Democrats, though it doesn’t apply as much in Utah because the term super-majority doesn’t describe them.calling on him to bow out of the White House chase after a videotape captured him bragging about groping women.
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