Days after a 2018 deadly school shooting in Florida, newly instated LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson criticized U.S. laws “that allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.”
His comments to a congregation of Mormon millennials in Las Vegas marked the second time the recently installed LDS leader has weighed in on a major national issue since he took the reins of the Utah-based faith nearly six weeks ago.
“I know your hearts are heavy, as are [wife] Wendy’s and mine, as we contemplate those ruthless killings in Florida last week,” Nelson said. “I think of Alaina Petty, a 14-year-old Latter-day Saint whose life was snuffed out by that sniper’s bullet. It’s natural for you and others to say: How could God allow things like that to happen? Well, God allows us to have our agency, and men have passed laws that allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.
But the church has taken no public position on current gun control legislation — nor did Nelson’s recent comments spell out a specific stance.. “... This seems to me consistent with that: a statement of moral sentiment rather disconnected from specific policy.”On Jan. 26, they issued a major statement encouraging Congress to move quickly to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers,” whose undocumented parents brought them to the United States as children.
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