COMMUNISM IS NOT THE LAW OF CONSECRATION - DO NOT BE DECEIVED

Wow - since the Democrat party was officially sanctioned by the Communist Party USA, I think this would be a condemnation of those who support that party any longer - and who dare call themselves good members of the Lord's Church....:


With great regret we learn from credible sources, governmental
and others, that a few Church members are joining, directly or indirectly,
the communists and are taking part in their activities.

The Church does not interfere, and has no intention of trying
to interfere, with the fullest and freest exercise of the political
franchise of its members, under and within our Constitution which
the Lord declared: "I established . . . by the hands of wise men
whom I raised up unto this very purpose," (D. & C. 101:80) and which,
as to the principles thereof, the Prophet dedicating the Kirtland
Temple, prayed should be "established forever."

But communism is not a political party nor a political plan
under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the
opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary
to destroy our government before communism could be set up in the
United States.

Since communism, established, would destroy our American Constitutional
government, to support communism is treasonable to our free institutions,
and no patriotic American citizen may become either a communist
or supporter of communism.

To our Church members we say: Communism is not the United Order,
and bears only the most superficial resemblance thereto; communism
is based upon intolerance and force, the United Order upon love
and freedom of conscience and action; communism involves forceful
despoliation and confiscation, the United Order voluntary consecration
and sacrifice.

Communists cannot establish the United Order, nor will communism
bring it about. The United Order will be established by the Lord
in his own due time and in accordance with the regular prescribed
order of the Church.

Furthermore, it is charged by universal report, which is not
successfully contradicted or disproved, that communism undertakes
to control, if not indeed to proscribe the religious life of the
people living within its jurisdiction, and that it even reaches
its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting
the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown
and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which
we in America live. Such interference would be contrary to the fundamental
precepts of the gospel and to the teachings and order of the Church.

Communism being thus hostile to loyal American citizenship and
incompatible with true Church membership, of necessity no loyal
American citizen and no faithful Church member can be a communist.

We call upon all Church members completely to eschew communism.
The safety of our divinely inspired Constitutional government and
the welfare of our Church imperatively demand that communism shall
have no place in America.

- Heber J. Grant J. Reuben Clark, Jr. David O. McKay
The First Presidency Published in The Improvement Era of August
1936.