Thursday, August 14, 2008

"LDS Prophets warn us of the dangers facing America"

I suppose you could call this a kind of conservative Mormon propaganda piece, and a competently produced one at that. A recent clip of current LDS Church president Thomas S. Monson is used as a hook or tie-in with a 1965 speech by then Apostle and later Church president Ezra Taft Benson. A John Birch society espousing paleo-conservative Republican, Benson arguably moderated some from his arch-conservatism during his 1985-1994 presidency (he was in his late 80’s when he came to the office), but here he is in right-wing glory. He was certainly a man of strong and deeply felt conviction, and agree with him or not he spoke his mind honestly and firmly. Ezra Taft Benson was influential in ushering in the Church membership more fully into the Republican column politically.

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