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Dallin Harris Oaks (born August 12, 1932) is an American religious leader and former jurist and academic who since 2018 has been the first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
On January 16, 2018, the church announced that due to the call of Dallin H. Oaks as a counselor in the First Presidency, M. Russell Ballard would serve as Acting President. [5] After Ballard's death on November 12, 2023, Jeffrey R. Holland was set apart as the new acting president on November 15. [6]
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
Dallin H. Oaks ordained. 19 April 1985 Bruce R. McConkie dies. 10 October 1985 M. Russell Ballard ordained. 5 November 1985 Spencer W. Kimball dies. 10 November 1985 The First Presidency is reorganized, with Ezra Taft Benson as president, Gordon B. Hinckley as First Counselor, and Thomas S. Monson as Second Counselor.
The apostle Dallin Oaks has been an influential figure in church interactions with homosexual people, instituting a system of surveillance to identify and expel or attempt to "cure" homosexual students as president of BYU in the 1970s, and doing numerous video interviews and articles on the topic in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith is a 1975 book by Brigham Young University professors Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill on the trial of the five defendants who were charged with and acquitted of the murder of Joseph Smith. The book received the Mormon History Association Best Book prize in 1976. [1]
The temple was dedicated by Dallin H. Oaks on May 7, 2023. [22] Like all the church's temples, it is not used for Sunday worship services. To members of the church, temples are regarded as sacred houses of the Lord. Once dedicated, only church members with a current temple recommend can enter for worship. [23]
[24] [25] On 9 February 2016 when apostle Dallin H. Oaks was asked about church leaders and members' responsibility for the treatment of LGBT individuals that may have precipitated in suicides he stated "that's a question that will be answered on judgment day" and that "nobody is sadder about a case like that than I am." [26]