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Latest from Mormon Land: Why anti-vaxxers aren’t pro-church — at least on COVID

Their faith leaders are encouraging inoculation and refusing to sign religious exemptions from the shots. Also, a blogger notes that Latter-day Saint doctrines can and do change from time to time. Might that happen with same-sex marriage?

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the church's First Presidency, receives the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Church authorities aren't allowing lay leaders to sign religious exemptions that members could then use to avoid getting the shots. Instead, top Latter-day Saint leaders support vaccination.