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Liz Cheney was recently invited to speak at the graduation of her Alma Mater Colorado College. About half of the graduates turned their chairs away from her as she spoke and some booed her.  We believe that people have an obligation to oppose immoral laws. President Oaks taught in April 2021, “Being subject to presidents or rulers of course poses no obstacle to our opposing individual laws or policies. It does require that we exercise our influence civilly and peacefully within the framework of our constitutions and applicable laws.” What is the appropriate response to a graduation speaker with whom someone might disagree politically?
June is Pride Month and support or opposition to Pride Month festivities has become heated. Utah Governor Spencer Cox was the only Republican to proclaim a statewide Pride Month when he made his first declaration in 2021, yet this year he is being attacked from both sides for his proclamation.  The Utah Pride Center is upset that his proclamation excluded “LGBTQ+” in the text. Conservatives accused Cox of pandering to the left by celebrating "sin," called him a RINO and urged a primary challenge from the right.” Should Latter-day Saints celebrate Pride Month? Is Pride month a celebration of sin?
Peggy Noonan (a columnist in the Wall Street Journal) recently argued that “If Trump Republicans propel Donald Trump over the top in the primaries, they will be doing and will have done two things. They will have made him their nominee for the presidency, and they will have ended the Republican Party.”
Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt gave a talk to Chaplains in November 2022 while serving in the YM general Presidency. He cites this talk in his recent General Conference talk. In this talk he argues that Activism Toward the Church (ATC) is spiritually damaging because it kills faith in Christ. He also argues that God has given us a pattern in all things to help us discern truth from error. Referring to verses in D&C 52:14-19, he says that the tools activists use to bring about change in the church do not follow this pattern, so they are not the right tools to bring about change in the church.

Elder Corbitt is very clear that activism has a proper role in society.  He defines activism as “the policy or action of using (campaigning or) vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue.” He mentions the Boston Tea Party and the Continental Congress as examples of activism being used for good. 

Here is the question: We often talk about how gospel solutions to the world’s problems are better than the world’s solutions to the