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‘Mormon Land’: ‘I don’t know any other major church that’s going down this road’ of civic peacemaking

Scholar Jonathan Rauch touts the LDS Church’s willingness to compromise on LGBTQ+ issues as a way for Americans to “share the country.”

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency delivers the 2021 Joseph Smith Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in 2021. Scholar Jonathan Rauch salutes the need to compromise that Oaks spelled out in his speech.