This work matters beyond one faith community.
This work serves Latter-day Saints, but the principles behind it matter far beyond one faith community. SAFE welcomes partnerships with educators, researchers, civic institutions, interfaith leaders, and public-interest organizations that care about dignity, fairness, and religious liberty.
Why this matters beyond one faith.
What happens to one faith community matters to more than that community.
When a people are routinely misrepresented, when their beliefs are turned into caricature, when public hostility is normalized, or when their participation in society becomes easier to question than protect, the standard of fairness begins to erode for everyone.
That is why this work matters beyond Latter-day Saints alone. This is not only about defending one group. It is about strengthening the cultural expectation that people of faith should be treated with seriousness, dignity, and equal civic respect. It is about protecting the idea that religious minorities should not have to become socially invisible in order to belong publicly.
Why partnership matters.
No community should have to carry public misrepresentation alone. Some problems are too cultural to solve by internal response only. They require relationships. They require shared language. They require institutions and communities willing to say that fairness must be applied consistently, even across deep difference.
Partnership matters because it widens the moral conversation, prevents isolation, strengthens public credibility, and helps situate the Latter-day Saint experience within larger questions of religious liberty, minority treatment, public memory, and civic coexistence.
A page like this signals something important: SAFE is not being built to withdraw from the public square. It is being built to participate in it more constructively.
Common ground without requiring uniformity.
Interfaith and public partnership becomes possible when people do not need total agreement in order to recognize a shared responsibility.
Dignity
Every person should be able to live openly according to conscience without being reduced to stereotype or treated as less worthy of respect.
Religious liberty
Freedom of religion includes more than private belief. It includes the ability to participate in public life without coercion, unfair exclusion, or targeted hostility because of faith.
Fairness
People of faith should be subject to the same standards of public discourse as anyone else — no more, and no less.
Truth
Misinformation harms communities, and the public deserves better than recycled distortion about any religious tradition.
Memory
Civic memory of past injustice strengthens present protection. Forgetting is rarely neutral.
Coexistence
Communities can disagree honestly about belief and still defend one another’s right to participate in public life with dignity.
Partnership opportunities.
SAFE is interested in building relationships with partners who share these principles, even where theological or political differences are real.
Possible forms of partnership
- Interfaith roundtables on religious liberty, public misrepresentation, and minority treatment
- Joint educational projects on civic history and minority experience
- Shared research on public sentiment, media coverage, or rights frameworks
- Coalitions on specific public-policy questions of religious liberty
- Civic forums, panels, and conferences hosted across communities
- Cross-tradition statements when serious public issues warrant joint response
What partnership looks like in practice.
Partnership does not require ideological alignment, theological agreement, or political coordination. It does require honesty, mutual respect, and a willingness to extend the same fairness to others that one wants extended to one’s own community.
SAFE is committed to being a thoughtful partner: clear about its mission, careful in its public statements, respectful of partners’ distinctiveness, and serious about the work of building public trust.
What we ask of partners.
We ask partners to engage in good faith, to extend the principle of fair representation universally, to distinguish disagreement from dehumanization, and to be willing to defend the dignity of communities other than their own when serious unfairness appears.
That posture is not unique to SAFE. It is the basic posture of healthy public life across religious difference.
SAFE is being built to participate, not withdraw.
If you lead an organization, congregation, school, nonprofit, civic institution, or research group, and you believe these principles deserve coordinated defense, we would like to hear from you.
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Help build a public culture in which religious communities — including but not only Latter-day Saints — can participate openly, peacefully, and with dignity.