Elder Dallin Oaks on Religious Freedom

By LaVarr Webb

Elder Dallin Oaks of the LDS Church delivered a landmark speech on religious freedom at BYU-Idaho on Tuesday. Here is an excerpt:

In choosing my subject I have relied on an old military maxim that when there is a battle underway, persons who desire to join the fray should "march to the sound of the guns." So it is that I invite you to march with me as I speak about religious freedom under the United States Constitution. There is a battle over the meaning of that freedom. The contest is of eternal importance, and it is your generation that must understand the issues and make the efforts to prevail.

Read on for the full text of the speech.

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