We're all familiar with
the verse from section 68, "Inasmuch as parents have
children in Zion, or ... any of her stakes
which are organized, that teach them not to
understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ
the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of
the Holy Ghost by the laying on of ... hands,
when eight years old, the sin be upon the
heads" of the bishop. [LAUGHING] But there's nothing in here
about--it talks about stakes, but it doesn't talk about
any officers or structure, ecclesiastical
lines of authority. It's really talking about
the membership of the stakes. It really is. In a stake, it's the parents,
even though you've got bishops and you've got stake
presidents and you've got Relief Society presidents. That clearly is, to me,
the scriptural underpinning of what you're saying. It's first and
foremost the parents.