From a legal perspective, the LDS Church is right. It is not fraud to hoard billions of dollars in their coffers and many global investments.
Taking the legal perspective, however, the LDS Church is succumbing to secular ideology rather than following the basic charitable tenets of all great religions.
The full name of the LDS Church — with the name Jesus Christ right in the middle — should inform the LDS Church.
From a moral perspective, with all of the poverty and injustice in the world, is hoarding these billions of dollars what Jesus Christ would choose to do?
Deborah Lewis, Hideout
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