Question at Year's End

The "Ideal"

   By our faith,
   by our religion,
   and by our rites of worship,
   and by our church,
   and by the sacred support
   which we owe to our wives
   and our children,
   by that liberty which binds us
   to our lands and our country;
   yea, and also by the maintenance
   of the sacred word of God,
   to which we owe all our happiness.

(Alma 44:5)

The "Reality"

​"Within Mormonism, where is the prophetic voice that used to defend the U.S. Constitution as divinely inspired, but now sits silently at the edge of the public square as nonstop assaults on the Constitution have emanated from the highest levels of government?"

-- Gregory A. Prince, "Have We Let a Crisis Go to Waste?" Salt Lake Tribune, December 26, 2020.

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/12/26/gregory-prince-have-we/?fbclid=IwAR3Kn5VY5GK3oI_hRyulOS6hu3FX63Kkcgg11d1m3DfL2xMEY7sRT12J-To