by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there’s no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or...
by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America[.]” Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference Reports – September 1967 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 29...
by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist[.]” Ezra Taft Benson, Improvement Era 64, “The American Heritage of Freedom: A Plan of God” (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, December 1961),...
by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist ‘has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.’ This is a most damnable...
by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Communism destroys man’s God-given free agency. No member of this Church can be true to his faith, nor can any American be loyal to his trust, while lending aid, encouragement, or sympathy to any of these false philosophies; for if he does, they will prove snares to...
by Dan Wees | Aug 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Well, the era through which we are passing is no exception. On the flyleaf of the book, The Naked Communist, by W. Cleon Skousen, we find this quotation, (and I admonish everybody to read that excellent book of Chief Skousen’s): “‘the conflict between communism...
