Reader LD sends along this story of University of Utah President Michael Young, who – in a recent address to the LDS Society at BYU – urged his fellow Mormons to champion civil and religious liberties for all, arguing that members of the faith should be "among the most passionate civil libertarians in the world" to preserve religious freedoms.
"We all ought to be members of the ACLU," Young said Monday in a question-and-answer session after addressing the LDS International Society at Brigham Young University during a conference on the erosion of religious liberties.
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"Our capacity to stem the tide, to raise the alarm and do what we need to do for our church, but also for people everywhere, is important," Young told a crowd of about 200 conference-goers.
The ACLU's Utah director was "surprised and delighted" by the news.
