Ties to group pushing a Constitution celebration raise questions about LDS Church’s political neutrality

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Ties to group pushing a Constitution celebration raise questions about LDS Church’s political neutrality
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“The church has always held the Constitution as important in the founding of this nation and encouraged our members to study its origins and understand its principles,” says spokesperson Doug Andersen. “We do not believe that doing so is a partisan issue.”

, R-Orem, to craft the legislation setting apart September as American Founders Month. “Our youth need to be taught intentionally and deliberately about the founding of this country and our form of government,” Brown said during a House committee meeting in February. “The state has a compelling interest to educate the rising generation about our constitutional republic to ensure it continues.

This group hopes to “rekindle not only a spirit of patriotism…[but also that] God’s hand was in the origin and destiny of America…as expressed by the Founding Fathers themselves.”

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