1350: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right (Matt Harris) - Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
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The Church's Way to Avoid a Scandal
The church, when they want to avoid a scandal will sometimes call people on missions. I'm aware of a high profile Mormon who was caught in an affair and the church actually made him a mission president out of the out of Utah to sort of help him escape the affair. But also we talked about that with BH Roberts that the BH Roberts stuff got so heated in 1922that what happens all BH Roberts has said on a mission to New York like this is a standard tactic of the church to play and avoid the perpetuation of a scandal. Randy bought a BYU in 2012 when he said those things in the Washington Post during Mitt Romney's campaign, things about race they retired him and
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