Julie B. Beck, former president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is interviewed in Salt Lake City, Aug. 30, 2011. She has been nominated to serve on the Dixie State College Board of Trustees.
Ravell Call, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — A former LDS Church historian and a former general Relief Society president have been nominated to serve on state higher education boards.
Gov. Gary Herbert proposed Thursday that the Utah Senate appoint Elder Marlin K. Jensen to the State Board of Regents and Julie B. Beck to the Dixie State College Board of Trustees.
Elder Jensen will be released from the First Quorum of the Seventy and given emeritus status in October. He served as church historian from April 2005 to January of this year.
Beck was released as president of the Relief Society in April after five years of service.
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Marlin Jensen is, in my estimation, à great man and a spiritual giant. I am, and however, intrigued by the tangled web of church and state in Utah.
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so anyone who served in a church position is tainted? I think those who support the 1st amendment would disagree. Former church service does NOT disqualify one from civil service.
This is bad news and I don't like it one bit. We all know there is no such thing as "former church leader", they always will be and they will never change their socialist ideals. It's bad enough that the LDS church has taken over More..