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Latter Day Struggles

429: Is the Mormon Church Politically Neutral?

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.5859 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Religion IS Political [Part I of VII] Anyone else noticing religious leaders from some faith traditions throughout the world speaking out against more and more egregious forms of US government-imposed violence, force, exploitation of power, and unaccountability at levels unfathomable until only recently? And other churches, LDS included choose silence and stand by a formal stance of neutrality at this moment. This series might be one of th...

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This is your host, Valerie, and this is your other host, Nathan.

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Hi, Nathan.

1:03.6

Hello, good to be back.

1:05.0

Yes, we are here today to begin actually a six-part series.

1:10.0

We have not done a six-part series for a little while, but this one

1:14.3

is a really important one, in my opinion. Not that others of them are not important, but this is a big

1:20.6

topic right now. And, well, it's a big topic for me, and I think I'm a rather average person.

1:27.5

So if it matters to me, I'm wondering if it matters to you.

1:30.3

I was inspired to start talking about this or start studying about this in preparation for this series.

1:37.3

In the last few months, when I have noticed that amidst a lot of the stress that many, many people are experiencing here in the United

1:48.0

States of America, that some of the churches are taking a stand and expressing how they stand

2:00.1

and how they feel as moral authorities in our culture and society.

2:05.1

And I have noticed with some at first confusion and then frustration and then curiosity about the

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