Dear Elder Clayton

On March 1, 2015 I wrote a letter to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regarding the Church’s vaccination policy (here). On March 21, 2019 I wrote a second letter (here). On April 30, 2019 Elder Weatherford Clayton responded to my second letter (here). My response to Elder Clayton is posted below.

August 11, 2019

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elder Weatherford Clayton
Chair, Missionary Health Services
Assistant Executive Director, Missionary Department
47 East South Temple Street

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150-1200

Re: “The Church supports the use of vaccinations . . .”

Dear Elder Clayton,

Thank you for responding to my letter dated March 21, 2019 in which I addressed the Church’s position on vaccination. Receiving your letter was a pleasant surprise. Thank you for referring to my concerns as “clear and compelling.”

Yes, the arguments I presented to Church leadership are indeed compelling:

  • Many vaccines contain human fetal and animal DNA and a host of other morally objectionable ingredients which injure and kill vaccine recipients
  • Vaccine manufacturers substitute inert placebos with known toxins in their “safety studies”
  • Insertional mutagenesis is a recognized phenomenon associated with vaccination
  • Vaccines designed to permanently alter the human genome are currently in development
  • Some vaccines have negative efficacy
  • Some vaccines increase childhood mortality
  • Vaccine architects intend to force virtually all people—including you and your family—to submit to their womb-to-tomb vaccination schedule or face fines, removal of children, loss of jobs, travel prohibitions, or imprisonment.

You referred to people who take issue with the facts listed above as “opponents.” Surely, Church leadership is opposed to criminal and immoral vaccination business practices such as fraud and the intentional injuring of children. Surely, the Church is opposed to the killing and harvesting of fetuses for vaccine development. Surely, the Church is opposed to injecting fetal and animal DNA, neurotoxins and carcinogens into pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and everyone else.  Surely, the Church opposes vaccines that will permanently alter the human genome. Surely, the Church opposes forced liability-free vaccinations.

In spite of these “clear and compelling” concerns, you provided a blanket endorsement of vaccinations with the following statement: “The Church supports the use of vaccinations but does not require them to be used.”

Such a statement might have been understandable in the 1970s before Congress removed liability from vaccine manufacturers and childhood diseases and disabilities multiplied in step with the vaccination schedule and before the rapacious nature of the pharmaceutical industry was less widely known. Today, it is neither understandable nor excusable. It is, in fact, unconscionable.

Voluminous evidence demonstrates that the Church’s support of vaccination is morally, doctrinally, and scientifically wrong. How many members have been injured or killed because they “obeyed” the Church’s one-size-fits-all vaccination prescription—a prescription that many perceive to be a commandment from God via His prophets? How many will yet be injured or killed because Church leadership and medical advisors refuse to disengage from Latter-day Gadianton Robbers and their craft of Pharmakeia? How many members will one day file suit against the Church for prescribing an invasive and dangerous medical procedure that injured or killed their children or other loved ones?

The Savior said, “Come unto me,” not “Come unto Merck.” It is time for Church leaders to stop consorting with criminals.

A growing number of people—members and non-members alike—pray for the day when Church leaders will listen to the cries of the mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, whose children and grandchildren have been injured or killed from the abomination of vaccination. They pray that leaders will terminate the Church’s relationship with vaccine profiteers and encourage members to do the same.

God surely hears the cries and prayers of His children. May Church leaders soon hear them as well. The future of humanity hangs in the balance.

Respectfully,

Brett Wilcox, author
We’re Monsanto: Feeding the World, Lie After Lie, Book I (Book II)

Jabbed: How the Vaccine Industry, Medical Establishment and Government Stick It to You and Your Family

Cc: Primary General Presidency
Young Women General Presidency
Relief Society General Presidency
Young Men General Presidency
The First Presidency

Public Health Committee

Note to readers: If you feel so moved, please share your thoughts, feelings, and experience regarding this issue with Church leaders. Regardless of faith, feel free to use or adapt this letter for any good purpose.

The Church Supports the Use of Vaccinations

On March 1, 2015 I wrote a letter to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regarding the Church’s vaccination policy (here). On March 21, 2019 I wrote a second letter (here). On April 30, 2019 Elder Weatherford Clayton responded to my second letter. His full letter is posted below (PDF file here). On August 11, 2019, I responded to Elder Clayton with a third letter (here).

30 April 2019

Brett Wilcox
2105 Sawmill Creek Road

Sitka, Alaska 99835

Dear Brother Wilcox,

The First Presidency forwarded to me your letter of March 21, 2019 regarding vaccination policy. Thank you for reaching out with your concerns about vaccinations and immunization safety.

As you know, vaccinations have both strong advocates and strong opponents. The rhetoric in the vaccination conversation is filled with firmly held opinions and assumptions. It is my privilege to have been assigned to chair the Missionary Health Services. I assure you that we in the Missionary Department are aware of the concerns that opponents have and honor their opinions though we may disagree with them. To help us with current information about vaccinations, the Public Health Committee has several very experienced physicians who have special expertise in infectious disease regularly review our immunization guidelines and immunization safety.

As you are aware vaccinations are not required for missionary service. I fear this is often misunderstood. If missionary candidates choose not to be vaccinated, they may indeed serve and are assigned to serve in their home country, regardless of the country of origin. This helps protect both the missionary and the population where the missionary might serve.

Diseases that vaccines can prevent can be devastating. In 2017, the most recent year for which estimates are available, measles caused close to 110,000 deaths, mostly in countries that do not have vaccinations readily available. Even in high-income countries such as the US where vaccinations are available, those who contract it run the risk of significant complications that can lead to lifelong disability ranging from brain damage to blindness to hearing loss. Yellow fever, another very dangerous infection that recently had an outbreak in South America, is controlled with vaccinations. Ebola, a disease in west (sp) Africa that has killed thousands, now has a vaccine which has proven effective when it is administered properly.

Thank you for you (sp) letter. I know that President Nelson, who was a medical researcher in cardiac surgery before his call to the apostleship, is a prophet of God. The Lord is revealing His will to His Church through him and the other apostles. The Church supports the use of vaccinations but does not require them to be used. Should the Lord require a change in this direction, I am certain that He will reveal it to His prophets.

Thank you for the clear and compelling explanation of your concerns.

Sincerely,

Weatherford Clayton
Chair, Missionary Health Services
Assistant Executive Director, Missionary Department

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