Protecting dignity. Defending truth. Strengthening public fairness.
SAFE exists to help ensure that Latter-day Saints can participate fully in public life without fear, misrepresentation, or unjust treatment. We believe every person deserves the freedom to live their faith openly, peacefully, and truthfully.
What SAFE is, how it is structured, what it is building.
What SAFE Is
SAFE stands for Saints Advocating for Freedom & Equity. SAFE is a public-interest initiative of GoForth Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. GoForth Foundation provides charitable oversight, governance, financial administration, and operational support for SAFE’s work.
How SAFE Is Structured
SAFE currently operates under the charitable oversight of GoForth Foundation. The initiative is being developed with clear governance, financial accountability, and long-term public credibility in mind. Leadership, operations, and public-facing work are carried out through GoForth Foundation’s charitable structure.
Current Focus
SAFE is actively focused on reporting, public education, practical resources, historical documentation, and the development of credible long-term research and partnerships.
What is SAFE?
SAFE stands for Saints Advocating for Freedom & Equity.
SAFE is an independent initiative dedicated to protecting the dignity, freedom, and fair treatment of Latter-day Saints in public life. We exist to educate, equip, and respond where misinformation, hostility, and misrepresentation affect members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in schools, workplaces, media, online spaces, and the broader culture.
We believe people of faith should not have to choose between their convictions and their safety, their beliefs and their belonging, or their identity and their public participation.
Why SAFE exists now.
Latter-day Saints have long carried the burden of being misunderstood, caricatured, and misrepresented. At times in history, that hostility escalated into mob violence, expulsion, legal discrimination, and forced displacement. Today, the forms may look different, but the pattern is still recognizable: misinformation spreads, contempt becomes acceptable, and real people bear the cost.
SAFE exists because dignity should not depend on public opinion.
We believe the rising normalization of distortion, suspicion, and hostility toward Latter-day Saints should be addressed early, calmly, and credibly — before misinformation hardens into exclusion, discrimination, or harm.
This is not about outrage. This is not about retaliation. This is about truth, fairness, and the right to live a life of faith without fear.
Our mission
To protect the dignity, freedom, and fair treatment of Latter-day Saints through education, advocacy, reporting, and principled public response.
SAFE works to ensure that Latter-day Saints can participate fully in public life without being silenced, stereotyped, or unfairly targeted because of their faith.
Our vision
We envision a future where Latter-day Saints no longer carry the burden of public misrepresentation alone — where students feel safe speaking openly about their faith, employees understand their rights and are treated fairly, media portrayals are more accurate, and public narratives are shaped by truth rather than caricature.
What SAFE does.
Monitor
We track patterns of anti‑Latter-day Saint misinformation, bias, and public misrepresentation across media, digital platforms, education, and public discourse.
Educate
We provide historical context, public resources, and teaching tools that help people understand the long-standing injustice and misunderstanding Latter-day Saints have faced.
Equip
We create practical resources for members navigating bias in schools, workplaces, and public life, including rights toolkits, reporting pathways, and support guidance.
Respond
We answer falsehood and hostility with factual, measured, and principled public response rather than noise, panic, or outrage.
Build credibility
We work toward research reports, partnerships, roundtables, and public-facing tools that strengthen fairness and accountability over time.
Support members
We want members to know they are not alone when facing misunderstanding, exclusion, or hostility because of their faith.
What SAFE is not.
SAFE is not a reactionary outrage platform. SAFE is not a partisan operation. SAFE is not built to inflame conflict. SAFE is not about teaching members to feel victimized.
SAFE exists to tell the truth carefully, respond to unfairness responsibly, and strengthen the ability of Latter-day Saints to live openly and peacefully in public life. We believe serious issues require seriousness. That means evidence over exaggeration, dignity over hostility, and clarity over conspiracy.
Our principles.
Truth
We believe misinformation should be answered with evidence, context, and honesty.
Dignity
Every person deserves to be treated with fairness and respect, including people of faith.
Freedom
Religious liberty includes the freedom to live, speak, gather, and participate in society without fear.
Equity
Latter-day Saints deserve the same fairness and public respect expected for any other faith community.
Courage
Silence does not solve misrepresentation. We believe difficult realities should be addressed with moral clarity.
Peaceable strength
We seek to build bridges where possible and respond firmly where necessary.
Leadership and governance.
SAFE is committed to principled governance, thoughtful leadership, and public trust.
As the organization develops, this page will include board leadership, executive leadership, advisors, governance standards, and transparency practices. We believe organizations that speak about truth and fairness should be built on those same principles internally.
SAFE is being designed with a rotating board structure and clear accountability in mind, helping ensure long-term credibility, healthy leadership transition, and mission stability.
At its core, SAFE is about people.
It is about the student who feels isolated for living their faith openly. The employee who feels pressure to stay silent. The family tired of seeing their beliefs reduced to caricature. The young person trying to understand whether they are allowed to belong in public without apology.
SAFE exists because no one should have to wonder whether it is safe to simply be who they are.
Join the work.
If you believe truth should matter, fairness should apply equally, and people of faith should not stand alone in the face of misrepresentation, we invite you to be part of this work.