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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Names of the Church|Response to section: "Names of the Church"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Names of the Church|Response to section: "Names of the Church"]] | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#"Some things that are true are not very useful"|Response to section: "Some things that are true are not very useful"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#"Some things that are true are not very useful"|Response to section: "Some things that are true are not very useful"]] | ||
| − | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Criticizing leaders|Response to section: "Criticizing leaders"]] | + | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Criticizing leaders|Response to section: "Criticizing leaders"]] |
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Researching “unapproved” materials on the internet|Response to section: "Researching 'unapproved' materials on the internet"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#Researching “unapproved” materials on the internet|Response to section: "Researching 'unapproved' materials on the internet"]] | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#"Going after members who publish or share their questions, concerns, and doubts"|Response to section: "Going after members who publish or share their questions, concerns, and doubts"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questions#"Going after members who publish or share their questions, concerns, and doubts"|Response to section: "Going after members who publish or share their questions, concerns, and doubts"]] | ||
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| + | ===="Criticizing leaders"==== | ||
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| + | |claim=The author states, "Dallin H. Oaks made the following disturbing comment in the PBS documentary, “The Mormons”: 'It is wrong to criticize the leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.'" | ||
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| + | *Elder Oaks answers this claim himself. "HW" is "Helen Whitney" and "DHO" is "Dallin H. Oaks": | ||
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| + | HW: You used an interesting phrase, “Not everything that’s true is useful.” Could you develop that as someone who’s a scholar and trying to encourage deep searching? | ||
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| + | DHO: The talk where I gave that was a talk on “Reading Church History” — that was the title of the talk. And in the course of the talk I said many things about being skeptical in your reading and looking for bias and looking for context and a lot of things that were in that perspective. But I said two things in it and the newspapers and anybody who ever referred to the talk only referred to [those] two things: one is the one you cite, “Not everything that’s true is useful,” and that [meant] “was useful to say or to publish.” And you tell newspapers any time (media people) [that] they can’t publish something, they’ll strap on their armor and come out to slay you! [Laughs.] | ||
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| + | I also said something else that has excited people: that it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true, because it diminishes their effectiveness as a servant of the Lord. One can work to correct them by some other means, but don’t go about saying that they misbehaved when they were a youngster or whatever. Well, of course, that sounds like religious censorship also. | ||
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| + | But not everything that’s true is useful. I am a lawyer, and I hear something from a client. It’s true, but I’ll be disciplined professionally if I share it because it’s part of the attorney-client privilege. There’s a husband-wife privilege, there’s a priest-penitent privilege, and so on. That’s an illustration of the fact that not everything that’s true is useful to be shared. | ||
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| + | In relation to history, I was speaking in that talk for the benefit of those that write history. In the course of writing history, I said that people ought to be careful in what they publish because not everything that’s true is useful. See a person in context; don’t depreciate their effectiveness in one area because they have some misbehavior in another area — especially from their youth. I think that’s the spirit of that. I think I’m not talking necessarily just about writing Mormon history; I’m talking about George Washington or any other case. If he had an affair with a girl when he was a teenager, I don’t need to read that when I’m trying to read a biography of the Founding Father of our nation. (See ["Elder Oaks Interview Transcript from PBS Documentary" http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/elder-oaks-interview-transcript-from-pbs-documentary] on mormonnewsroom.org) | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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