Kathleen Flake on Mormons and free speech

Kathleen Flake on Mormons and Free Speech

In short, among the Mormons, one is not free to promote disbelief in the church and remain a member of the church. Again, obviously, this has a chilling effect on free speech, but who says speech within religious communities is necessarily or even properly free? Freedom of speech is highly valued in democracies because they depend upon the free flow of information and ideas. But most churches are not democracies. And, no church that depends upon the free flow of right ideas — doctrine and theology — values the free of wrong ideas.