649: Sam Young - Living the Law of Common Consent by Voting Opposed

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Sam Young lived as an orthodox Mormon for several decades, including a full term as an LDS bishop and many years as a stake high counselor. After stumbling on the LDS Gospel Topics Essays and learning about Joseph Smith's polyandry, the Book of Abraham translation problems, etc. -- and specifically after the LDS Church November 2015 policy change regarding LGBT members and their children -- Sam experienced an LDS faith crisis.

Over time, Sam developed his own method for expressing concern about LDS policy and administrative problems -- he decided to begin living the Law of Common Consent as found in Doctrine and Covenants 26, which to him means that during every ward, stake and general conference Sam will be voting opposed when asked to sustain the LDS first presidency and the quorum of the 12 apostles. Sam is also inviting other LDS church members to consider a similar approach if they object to recent policy and administrative changes.

This interview includes Jamie Hanis Handy and Sam's 85 year old mother, Bertie, who recently resigned her church membership over similar concerns to Sam.

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0:52.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John D'Alene. It's August 24th, 2016.
1:00.0	We are recording live in the basement of my home in North Logan, Utah. And I'm very excited to have today's special guest.
1:11.0	Some of you will know him. I'm guessing the most of you won't. But you'll all be glad you got to know him after today's interview.
1:19.0	I'm going to turn the camera around. Today we are going to be interviewing a friend of the family, someone who I've known for, I don't know, how many years Sam 30 years?
1:33.0	So at least 30 years, yes.
1:35.0	Probably 35. His name is Sam Young. Hi Sam, welcome to Mormon Stories.
1:40.0	Well, greetings John and Jamie, that mom.
1:43.0	Yeah, yeah. So I'm here with Sam. Next to him is his sweet mom, Bertie with the tea. Hi Bertie.
1:51.0	Thanks for joining us. And then, and then remotely we have Jamie, Hannah's Handy.
1:59.0	Who many of you will know as someone who has hosted Mormon Stories at various times and has been on panels.
2:07.0	We're recording Jamie's video over Skype and we hope to find a way to merge the audio and the video together into something seamless.
2:16.0	Jamie, thanks for joining us on Mormon Stories.
2:20.0	Thanks. So glad to be here.
2:23.0	So why did I want to interview Sam?
2:28.0	Sam Young is, let's see, Sam, I'll do my best to introduce you and then we can go from there.
2:35.0	Sam and my dad started a business called Barter Systems Incorporated in Houston right around 1976, 1977.
2:43.0	What did you come on, Sam? It started out as exchange enterprises and then it turned to Barter.
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