"The church does not interfere, and has no intention of trying to interfere, with the fullest and freest exercise of the political franchise of its members, under and within our constitution which the Lord declared, 'I established... by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose,' and which, as to the principles thereof, the prophet, dedicating the Kirtland temple, prayed should be 'established forever.'

Destructive Group

"But communism is not a political party, nor a political plan under the constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our constitutional government. . . .