By wcleonskousen.com on October 21, 2009
In 2005, the year before his death, I had the opportunity to learn from a modern-day Founding Father, W. Cleon Skousen. I, and others, sat before him as we studied the book, The 5000 Year Leap, asked questions and received commentary directly from the principle author of the book, Dr. W. Cleon Skousen. The research that went into the writing of this book was done at the request of past president of the LDS Church, David O. McKay. This research is also what led to other great books: The Making of America and The Majesty of God’s Law. In the forward of The Majesty of God’s Law, Skousen wrote…
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By wcleonskousen.com on January 15, 2009
When President McKay finished reading it, he went up before the conference of the Church, and said, “Now I want everyone to read this, and let us commence to get informed on what is happening to our country.” You see, practically everyone was being given a misinterpretation of world events. Things like this were being absolutely ignored. And President McKay said, “This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints — to get in the struggle to preserve freedom.”
People said, “Well, isn’t genealogy our number one responsibility?” “Isn’t missionary work our number one responsibility?” President McKay said, “Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.”
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