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Dallin H. Oaks and family's inauguration photo (1971) After the resignation of Ernest L. Wilkinson as BYU's 7th president, Neal A. Maxwell , who was the Commissioner of the Church Educational System , created a search committee for a new president, without any good leads on candidates.
However, many LDS men are sealed in LDS temples to more than one woman "for eternity", following the divorce or death of the first wife, the latter example being the case with two current LDS apostles, Russell M. Nelson and Dallin H. Oaks.
[75] In 2007 Dallin H. Oaks, a senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and a former judge on the Utah Supreme Court, has counseled church members that "the weakening of the concept that marriages are permanent and precious has far-reaching consequences." [76]
The church takes pains to keep its official positions apolitical, and last weekend, one of its senior leaders, Dallin H. Oaks, encouraged members to be civil ahead of the November election ...
After the letter had been purchased for the church and became public knowledge, LDS Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words "white salamander" could be reconciled with Smith's Angel Moroni because, in the 1820s, the word salamander might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a ...
Baker is a daughter of Dallin H. Oaks and June Oaks (née Dixon). Her father is an attorney and former president of Brigham Young University, served as a Utah Supreme Court justice, and as of 2024 is the second-ranking leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [8]
BYU has seen many changes in policies around its LGBT student population. In 1962 a ban on students known to have a homosexual orientation was enacted by Ernest Wilkinson, but softened a decade later by his successor Dallin H. Oaks to only ban "overt and active homosexuals."
Indeed, in 2017, Dallin H. Oaks gave a talk in General Conference suggesting the text of the proclamation was composed solely by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [3] which are the church’s top two leadership bodies, and are both all-male.