Elder Oaks and The LDS Punishment Initiative!

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Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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This week’s Mormon Newscast centers on what looks like a renewed willingness by Church leadership under Dallin H. Oaks to draw sharper lines and enforce them. Whether it’s the Church’s trademark lawsuit involving John Dehlin or the excommunication of Landon Brophy, such seems to signal a broader shift toward tightening control over both narrative and… Read More »Elder Oaks and The LDS Punishment Initiative!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday. It is May 4th. Do you think that we should go to our graphic? May 4th is a special day. And I am joined on the special day by RFM. Is that why we have the emperor on the thumbnail?
0:18.2	That's exactly right. I'm joined by RFM and I'm joined by Bill Real. Of course,
0:22.5	I'm Rebecca Bibliateka. Let's go to our next slide. I think that's the one I was talking about.
0:26.7	There it is. Happy May the 4th, right? Do you guys know that it's Star Wars Day? Were you aware of this?
0:33.5	Yes. Yes. I have it, I've had it thrust upon my consciousness, consciousness over and over
0:40.4	enough to, yeah, to remember. I like the fact that I'm Obi-Wan over there. Yeah, no, I think you're
0:45.2	supposed to be Luke. And of course, Bill, you know, has to be on solo. You're Luke, yeah. Okay.
0:50.6	I ask AI to make, you know, the power trio there, exactly. And, of course, I celebrate Star Trek Day, which is September 8th, but I'm okay celebrating May the 4th be with you, too. So anyway, happy May the 4th. I feel like my lightsaber is shorter than it is in actuality. It's a little stubby, but that's okay. All right. Let's talk about what we're going to talk about here tonight. This is going to be a good action-packed. So much news. Oh, my gosh. It just gets more and more every single episode we put out here. So let's see. We have for some reason. I'm not.
1:25.0	Are you able to turn this? Rebecca. Oh, I forgot. I have to go to RFM. You added this.
1:30.3	I put this in there when I thought it was Obi-One.
1:33.4	There you go. Strike me down and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
1:39.0	I feel like that's John's, John DeLan's motto right now. Strike me down. And I will become more
1:43.9	powerful than you could ever
1:45.3	imagine. They're just, you know, getting ready for the swing. Yep, that's it exactly. All right. Yes,
1:52.0	I can turn the slides. I got my mouse all situated. So let's go over what we're going to talk about
1:56.3	tonight. Is it a new day for LDS Xications and lawsuits? That's a big story.
2:01.5	Everybody's talking about this week.
2:03.2	Wade Christofferson update.
2:04.8	This was a big story from last week that we kind of put on hold because we wanted to give
2:08.5	it the place of importance and the time that it took.
2:12.4	Mormon political leanings are shifting.
2:15.0	That's going to be Bill's story.
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