Excerpts from the blathering of President Dallin Hoax
First Counsellor in the First Presidency
General Conference OCTOBER 2018

(Please bare in mind this bloody fool was once a high court judge.)

[N]ot all of this information is true. We need to be cautious as we seek truth and choose sources for that search. We should not consider secular prominence or authority as qualified sources of truth...We should also be cautious about the motivation of the one who provides information...When we seek the truth about religion, we should use spiritual methods appropriate for that search: prayer, the witness of the Holy Ghost, and study of the scriptures and the words of modern prophets.

“scientific truth” is not the whole of life. Those who do not learn “by study and also by faith” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118) limit their understanding of truth to what they can verify by scientific means. That puts artificial limits on their pursuit of truth.

Satan’s most strenuous opposition is directed at whatever is most important to God’s plan. He seeks to destroy God’s work ... He also seeks to confuse gender, to distort marriage, and to discourage childbearing—especially by parents who will raise children in truth.

Our knowledge of God’s revealed plan of salvation requires us to oppose current social and legal pressures to retreat from traditional marriage and to make changes that confuse or alter gender or homogenize the differences between men and women. We know that the relationships, identities, and functions of men and women are essential to accomplish God’s great plan.

The work of the Lord is going forward despite the organized and constant opposition that confronts us ... don’t be among those “who would rather try to change the Church than to change themselves.”