Are you a Liahona, an Iron Rod, or just an apostate?

Last December, I overheard a group of BYU students discussing Proposition 8, the church-backed California ballot initiative proposing a statewide ban on gay marriage. The students were animated and thoughtful in their discussion, but the general consensus might have startled some Latter-day Saints.

The church, they argued, never would have gotten so involved with Prop. 8 if President Hinckley were still in charge.

Five months later, the BYU Bookstore announced a new shelving policy. When the campus newspaper went out to get student reaction, some were frustrated by the policy, others were apathetic, but then there was a third group who saw it as a black and white issue.

The bookstore, they reasoned, is owned by BYU, which is owned by the church, which is led by a prophet who takes his orders directly from God. For them, the question about the shelving policy had been answered the day they got baptized.

via MormonTimes

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