With the 2008 election not too far away I felt inspired to create a video regarding upholding principles over political parties. I have also gathered quotes from LDS prophets and other leaders on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMpPPN_ILEo
Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for ...When I find out these things, when I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is...Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord. (J. Reuben Clark, Jr., CR 10/62:8)
They serve to organize factions...to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of the
Those of us who have already awakened to a sense of our awful situation typically feel a similar urge to be actively involved in doing something about it. It's not enough just to learn about the principles of freedom and the US Constitution and recognize that we have strayed far from those principles. This fight for freedom is not a new one; it has been going on for thousands of years. This battle is a continuation of the war that began in heaven between good and evil.
Ezra Taft Benson is just one of many prophets that have urged the Latter-day Saints to play an active role in protecting our freedom. In one of his speeches, Ezra Taft Benson outlined some things that each of us can do (below is a summary):
1. We must be righteous and moral and live all of the gospel principles. We