431: LDS Strategic Political Engagement & the Upholding of Traditional Male Power Structures

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Religion IS Political [Part II of VII] In this episode Val & Nathan walk through the last several decades and map issues of high and low LDS political involvement, offering a template for what the church feels is significant enough to merit their active public statements, financial resources, active instruction to LDS membership regarding the vote. What the church deems "of significant moral consequence" (per their official statement of neut...

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0:00.0	There is just one seat remaining in the upcoming Latter-day Struggle Support Group.
0:04.8	Enrollment is about to close, and this is the final opportunity to join this group.
0:09.2	If you've been waiting for a sign, this is it.
0:11.8	Visit the link in today's show notes or go to latterday struggles.com now to claim the last spot. Hello, everybody, welcome to Latter-day Struggles.
0:30.2	Hello, Nathan.
0:32.2	Hello, good to be back.
0:33.3	How are you doing?
0:33.8	Oh, I'm good.
0:34.9	Good.
0:35.8	We're happy to be here.
0:36.9	We are on episode number two of a six-part series where we are talking about
0:40.4	how religion is political and politics is religious. I'm going to have Nathan, if you would.
0:47.5	Would you just go ahead and get us started by giving a bit of a review of last Monday's episode
0:53.2	where we talked a little bit about Mormonism and political
0:55.7	neutrality. Yeah, so basically what we talked about is we just kind of opened with this
1:00.6	idea that when you and I were younger and a little more orthodox believing that we had
1:09.9	in our minds that this idea of the church being politically neutral
1:15.7	was probably a good idea, right? That the church's realm is spirituality and the realm of
1:23.2	politics is completely different and the separation of church and state is a good thing.
1:28.5	And then as certain issues came up, and we saw the church perhaps breaking their own rules and
1:36.4	giving statements on political issues and then staying silent on other issues where we thought
1:42.6	there might be some moral guidance that
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