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LDS Video Leak

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“The purpose (of the meetings),” Hawkins said, “is to understand issues that may face the church and is in pursuit of the obligation church leaders feel to be informed on and have open discussion about current issues. This is an informational forum, not a decision-making body.”
http://universe.byu.edu/2016/10/04/lds- ... n-videos1/

Fifteen leaked videos of meetings involving senior leaders of the LDS Church were posted on YouTube Sunday morning.
"Most of these videos appear to be from briefings received by senior church leaders between 2007 and 2012"
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8656 ... ar_cache=1

:arrow: Oceanic piracy

Video length: 5:54

Year identified in the video: 2008

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU
“In our day, it may be worth it to stress that even in times of economic distress it does not entitle individuals to steal from others.”

:arrow: Mormons marrying later in life

Video length: 6:13

Year identified in video: 2007

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU
“Hanging out,” however, is a problem, and LDS men and women are marrying later and having fewer children. This impacts young adult women who want to serve missions and pursue education without delaying marriage or children.

:arrow: WikiLeaks

Video length: 7:07

Year identified in video: 2011

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU
Gong talks about possible church implications from a technical attack, a personnel attack or an “unintended” situation like a lost church computer or data drive. He also talks about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

:arrow: Housing crisis

Video length: 7:20

Year identified in video: 2008

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU
To avoid “moral hazards,” the government left federal interest rates alone and gave AIG a big loan. The presentation detailed unsustainable loans and the housing bubble bust. Gong says there will be commotion but no reason to fear.

:arrow: Science and moral issues

Video length: 8:02

Year identified in video: 2008

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU
Gong indicates that new definitions of brain injuries and impairments could change the understanding of moral accountability among members of the church.

:arrow: Medical and recreational marijuana

Video length: 8:36

Year identified in video: 2010

Presenter: Elder Gerrit W. Gong, formerly the assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU who earlier in 2010 was called to be a General Authority Seventy for the LDS Church.

The church does not have a position on medical marijuana.

:arrow: Financial crisis

Video length: 11:55

Year identified in video: 2008

Presenter: Gerrit W. Gong, then assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU

President Boyd K. Packer says, “We have to pause and remember that we’re leading 13 million people worldwide and this pestilence, somehow, it’s touching them all. So we’ve got to settle down, sober up and wise up.”

:arrow: Challenges facing Kurdish community

Video length: 11:57

Year identified in video: 2012

Presenter: Elder Paul B. Pieper of the Seventy

comment on the potential for LDS Church growth in the worldwide Kurdish community.

:arrow: Islam

Video length: 43:40

Year identified in video: 2012

Presenters: Elder Paul B. Pieper, Elder Patrick R. Kearon and Elder Craig A. Cardon

They review current church policy on teaching Muslims and address possible refinements to allow for “respectful and measured proselyting” in areas where there is religious freedom and familiarity with Christianity.

:arrow: Church preparedness

Video length: 47:04

Year identified in video: 2008

Presenter: Bishop H. David Burton
They talked about making sure all members of the church have adequate food and clean water. They emphasized the need to continue to train bishops to respond to the needs of members of their congregation.

:arrow: Politics

Video length: 48:38

Date identified in video: 2009

Presenter: Gordon Smith is a former United States Senator from Oregon who served from 1997 to 2009

"I can't stress what it means for the church to have temple-recommend carrying members of the U.S. Senate and House. It is of inestimable value to the church."

:arrow: Young single adults

Video length: 50:03

Year identified in video: 2008

Presenter: Elder Bruce C. Hafen of the Seventy and BYU professor Alan Wilkins

The presentation addresses a study that showed an increasing amount of young single adults do not go to church, and that poses a threat to the growth of a multi-generational church. Paradoxically, the church is losing them because they're not being used in meaningful ways.

:arrow: Politics

Video length: 52:12

Year identified in video: 2008

David Magleby, dean of the college of Family, Home and Social Sciences at BYU and founder of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at BYU
The discussion also recognized that LGBT rights proponents are well-organized, well-funded, very aggressive and very smart with media engagement. LGBT advocated have successfully characterized the marriage debate as one of hate and intolerance.

:arrow: Religious freedom

Video length: 55:19

Year identified in video: 2012

Presenters: Former Utah Gov. and former U.S. Presidential Cabinet member Mike Leavitt, Princeton professor Robert P. George
Issues discussed include same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate.

:arrow: Church History Department reorganization

Video length: 1:37:59

Year: Unknown
Elder Marlin K. Jensen presents the new purpose statement.


So, how do you consider the information being presented in any/all of the above leaked videos relates to the above-mentioned "decision making"?
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