Tamarra Kemsley reports on Elder Holland apologizing to the parents of Matt Easton.
Tamarra Kemsley, "‘I have wept for those three years’: LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland opens up about his BYU ‘musket speech’," Salt Lake Tribune, September 11, 2024, accessed December 19, 2024
A missing apology
Easton, who has since left the church, said he was “disappointed but not surprised” by Holland’s lack of an apology.
Not long after Holland’s talk, the apostle wrote a letter to Easton’s father, an active Latter-day Saint, Easton said. In it, the church leader apologized for any pain he may have caused the graduate’s parents.
“He did not,” Easton explained, “attempt to make contact or restitution with me.”