Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Amid questions, controversy LDS Church repeats its immigration stance

Amid a steady trickle of questions from LDS members and a swelling stream of political criticism of a state guest-worker law, the church is repeating its support of the Utah Compact, and it again described immigration laws enacted by Utah’s governor and Legislature as “a responsible approach.”

The statement, posted Tuesday on the church’s official website, came in response to “three or four calls a day [from members] … asking for the [LDS] church’s position on immigration,” said spokesman Scott Trotter. “The information is meant to reiterate what we’ve already said multiple times, rather than serve as a new statement on the topic.”

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