{"id":149,"date":"2009-07-07T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-07-07T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T04:50:00","slug":"dallin-oaks-responsibility-in-a-world-of-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Dallin Oaks: Choice and Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right; width: 150px; height: 165px;\" title=\"Dallin H. Oaks\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom.lds.org\/Static Images\/Newsroom\/photo\/Background Information\/Leader\/Quorum of the Twelve\/Oaks_medium.jpg\" alt=\"Dallin H. Oaks\" width=\"150\" height=\"165\" \/>&#8220;We are responsible to use our agency in a world of choices. It will not do to pretend that our agency has been taken away when we are not free to exercise it without unwelcome consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dallin Oaks\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.lds.org\/ldsnewsroom\/eng\/background-information\/leader-biographies\/elder-dallin-h-oaks\" target=\"_blank\">Elder Dallin H. Oaks<\/a>: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, quoted in &#8220;<a title=\"Moral Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/ldsorg\/v\/index.jsp?hideNav=1&amp;locale=0&amp;sourceId=aed5ceb47f381210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&amp;vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\">Moral Agency<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Ensign<\/em>, Jun 2009, 46-53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are responsible to use our agency in a world of choices. It will not do to pretend that our agency has been taken away when we are not free to exercise it without unwelcome consequences.&#8221; Elder Dallin H. Oaks: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,18,19,44],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-agency","tag-choice","tag-consequence","tag-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}