Now everyone can view LDS Church stances on social issues
By Peggy Fletcher Stack
The Salt Lake Tribune
Published Nov 19, 2010 02:04PM
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/50690125-80/church-says-handbook-members.html.cspsnip
Until now, the handbook was available only to these church leaders. That still holds true for the first volume, which is available online to bishops and stake presidents.
That blue volume includes information about counseling with members. LDS authorities worried that if it were widely read, some members "might decide they don't need to go see their bishop," says Michael Otterson, managing director of LDS Public Affairs. "It made much more sense to reserve that volume for leaders."
But the church is putting the second, red volume online for everyone. So, for the first time, members and outsiders can read for themselves the church's position on a panoply of social issues.
