Church has rights, too
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2005, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Over the last few weeks I've read numerous Public Forum letters about how people are upset because the LDS Church refuses to let anyone and everyone into their temples to see their friends/family/children/whomever get married there.

Has everyone forgotten that the LDS temples are private property? Paid for by private funds? My home is my private property. I can deny anyone I choose entry into my home for any reason. If they enter my home anyway, I can have them arrested for trespassing.

The leadership of the LDS church has every right to decide who can and cannot come into their temples. They consider their temples sacred. They consider the ordinances performed in those temples sacred. They have the right to say to the public that if you want to come into our temples and witness those ordinances, then you have to join our church and live your life according to a certain moral standard.

Everyone who wrote one of those pieces needs to get down off their high horse and realize that the LDS Church has the same rights as they do.

Hilton Harris

Sandy

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