LDS in survey call for unvarnished history
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:42 am
It's kind of a loaded survey (though I agree with the conclusion).
Who is going to say, "Please lie to me." ?
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The Nehor wrote:Who is going to say, "Please lie to me." ?
moksha wrote:http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660224413,00.html
Sounds good to me. What do you think?
We have a responsibility to share that in a way that correlation will agree with, so we understand that we have limits.
But he cautioned that like other archives, "there are some restrictions on privacy and intellectual property" as well as on "sacred, private and institutional materials. That's something we just won't budge on, and those things will never be made public,"
Steve Olsen, associate managing director of family and church history, addressed questions by several who were concerned that the department's new "purpose statement" — which is in part "to help God's children make and keep sacred covenants" — may exclude them from access to documents.
He said the new focus on active church members doesn't mean researchers will be excluded, but that helping non-scholar Latter-day Saints understand their history will be the department's primary mission.
He pointed to the exhaustive research LDS historians have done on the Mountain Meadows Massacre as evidence that the church isn't trying to hide its past, saying research materials gathered by the authors will be made available to scholars.
But he cautioned that like other archives, "there are some restrictions on privacy and intellectual property" as well as on "sacred, private and institutional materials. That's something we just won't budge on, and those things will never be made public," he said.[
Seven wrote:Hmmmm........I wonder what kind of information in there is so "sacred" or "private" that they can't budge on making it public?
asbestosman wrote:Seven wrote:Hmmmm........I wonder what kind of information in there is so "sacred" or "private" that they can't budge on making it public?
Parts of the temple--we covenant not to.
But he cautioned that like other archives, "there are some restrictions on privacy and intellectual property" as well as on "sacred, private and institutional materials. That's something we just won't budge on, and those things will never be made public,"
Mercury wrote:The Nehor wrote:Who is going to say, "Please lie to me." ?
The Mormon leadership requires the sheep to say this
moksha wrote:http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660224413,00.html
Sounds good to me. What do you think?