First, the left/right paradigm is false. Both political parties are funded and controlled by the same Gadiantons. We have been warned ad infinitum about our awful situation so I won't go into that.captainfearnot wrote:The thread on Oaks moving to the left has got me thinking. What if the LDS Church did move to the left, politically? What if, instead of just a handful of token Democrats in the leadership, there were only a handful of token Republicans? What would be your response?
Would you move to the left along with the church? In other words, if you are first and foremost a believing Mormon, and you're only politically conservative because that's where the church seems to lean, then if it changed its leaning it would make sense to change yours along with it.
Would you maintain your religious beliefs and your right-leaning politics? In that case, you would adopt a similar position as LDS Democrats today. You believe LDS doctrine, but you also take its stated political neutrality seriously and exercise independence from the church's leanings in political matters. Those few token leaders who go against the political grain would be your primary examples to follow in that regard.
Or, would you consider the church to be in apostasy if it began to skew left? in other words, you are first and foremost a conservative, and only consider Mormonism to be true so long as it is based on those same fundamental, eternal principles. There can be no such thing as a true church that is politically liberal, so that would be a sure sign that it is in apostasy, and time to find a new church.
Second, the church is neither left nor right. Again, the paradigm only exists in the minds of the deceived public. There is only right and wrong, the Lord's way and not the Lord's way. So your question of "Would you move to the left along with the church?" has no meaning.
Lastly, if the point of your original post (and I am only guessing here) is to ask about blind loyalty to the Church, I would, as should all members, 1) examine the words of Christ of which we have a solid testimony and determine if the "leanings" of the Church are in harmony and 2) ASK for and RECEIVE an answer through the Holy Ghost. Then act accordingly.
If your original post is really trying to examine the forum member's political slant in light of some mistaken idea that the Church currently leans right or left, again the question is meaningless for multiple reasons. Church members (forum members here include Gadianton shills and common enemies of the Church and for the most part, as a group, are worthless to examine in light of the Church as a whole) may tend to align themselves with a right or left paradigm but that is either incidental or because they are deceived into believing the right/left paradigm. Even the elect will be deceived.