“We’ve seen zero evidence in Elder Oaks’ subsequent public speeches that he believes anything different than when he penned this quote 38[+] yrs ago. And he continues to direct Church policy to this end, hence the ‘November policy’ … according to Elder Oaks and his bigoted policy suggestions, we would not have Michelangelo, Tchaikovsky, Aaron Copeland and Ellen, Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickinson, Plato or Alan Turing— arguably some of the most influential contributors to entertainment, literature, science which have shaped the ideals of society.”

Jahn Curran, FB Post – 26 October 2017 

You can read the entire text of Dallin Oaks’ 7 August 1984 letter “Principles to govern possible public statement on legislation affecting rights of homosexuals” here