An editorial from Apostle John A Widtsoe in the Improvement Era describes the concept of loyalty through a Mormon lens. After an admirable general definition of loyalty, the author subverts this concept - bending it into a dogmatic blind obedience to Mormon church leaders on the promise that a man hoping for greater authority and position in the church himself will one day be able to command the very type of loyalty he now offers. This easily explains such things as Elder Oaks choosing loyalty over compassion on the issue of the racist priesthood ban and the teachings which surrounded it, as he related in the 2018 Be One celebration.
An editorial from Apostle John A Widtsoe in the Improvement Era describes the concept of loyalty through a Mormon lens. After an admirable general definition of loyalty, the author subverts this concept - bending it into a dogmatic blind obedience to Mormon church leaders on the promise that a man hoping for greater authority and position in the church himself will one day be able to command the very type of loyalty he now offers. This easily explains such things as Elder Oaks choosing loyalty over compassion on the issue of the racist priesthood ban and the teachings which surrounded it, as he related in the 2018 Be One celebration.
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