Elder Dallin H. Oaks speech at Chapman University School of Law

In a landmark address to the Chapman University School of Law, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints affirmed the importance of the free exercise of religion and called for people to work together to protect this First Amendment right.

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[sobarr91765]

Thank you Elder Oaks for defending the rights of all religions! Let us now join together to protect these rights, independent of creed.

[retiretoheber]

Our Founding Fathers deliberately

Placed religious freedom first in the Bill of Rights

So wanting to maintain the guarantee

Of a nation under God's guiding light

what a great reminder!

[ExcellenceInAll]

@ 38:33 this touches me... he gets emotional here... can't we feel the love with which he speaks with such an important subject.

[ExcellenceInAll]

@ 34:08 I have never seen an Apostle of the Lord emphasize words in this way - PAY ATTENTION... Watch this part as many times as you need to in order to let what he says sink in.

[aloha42506]

A Great Discourse from a very smart and wise apostle.

[ViCe1986]

@MrGmarshall41

It is diminished when the state imposes unconstitutional regulations on religious ordinances that violate one's right to worship God according to the precepts of there faith.

The state has no right to change or alter a religious ordinance like marriage.

[teasnuts]

Great discourse. 

[MrGmarshall41]

How does Religious Freedom diminish if it is in the Constitution and it is a civil liberty to worship who and how they may? Is the Government removing this liberty? Legal protection, I thought Religious Freedom was protected by the Constitution?

[Ambicatus]

I concur wholeheartedly that moral relativism is the problem. What reasonable person would put human intellect above absolute rules of a moral code or a religion, knowing that the flaws of religion (of which there are many) are the product of misapprehension of absolute codes of morality, or, at the very least, their misapplication? It seems utterly astonishing that anyone would wish to replace the absolutes of religion with the relative and flawed instrument of religion's misapplication.

[iamsonny]

@sborrowman53

You know I am thankful that you point that out, most of the religious ideas are not debatable and it come out as conclusions; you either act in accordance with their faith or struggling with some of the aspects. It is not like human laws that can be change or alter into different ways because largely base on the fundamental truths we all accepted to live by, even for the non believers...

[pedrosonia]

amen

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