Dallin H. Oaks: Difference between revisions

After high school, Oaks attended BYU, where he occasionally served as a radio announcer at high school basketball games. At one of these basketball games during his freshman year at BYU, he met June Dixon, a senior at the high school, whom he married during his junior year at BYU.<ref name="dispensation" /> Due to his membership in the [[Utah National Guard]] and the possibility of being called up to serve in the [[Korean War]], Oaks did not serve as an LDS Church [[Mission (LDS Church)|missionary]].<ref name="bergera" />{{rp|33}}<ref>Wilkinson. ''BYU''. pp. 13–14.</ref> In 1952, Oaks married Dixon in the [[Salt Lake Temple]]. He graduated from BYU in accounting1954 with higha honors[[bachelor's degree]] in 1954[[accounting]] with high honors.<ref name="rel" /><ref name=BYHigh>{{citation |title= Dallin H. Oaks: Judge, University President, Apostle; Brigham Young High School Class of 1950 |work= BYH Biographies: Alumni |publisher= Brigham Young High School Alumni Association |url= http://www.byhigh.org/Alumni_K_to_O/Oaks-DallinH/DallinHOaks.html |access-date= January 17, 2014}}</ref>

Oaks then attended the [[University of Chicago Law School]] on a full-tuition National Honor Scholarship, where he served as editor-in-chief of the ''[[University of Chicago Law Review]]'' during his third year.<ref name="bergera" />{{rp|33}}<ref>{{citation |url= http://www.gapages.com/oaksdh1.htm |title= Dallin H. (Harris) Oaks |work= Grampa Bill's General Authority Pages |publisher= William O. Lewis, III |access-date= January 17, 2014 |archive-date= September 24, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924020728/http://www.gapages.com/oaksdh1.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mormonlawyers.com/2010/01/harvard-law-school-latter-day-saint.html |title=Harvard Law School to Present Elder Dallin H. Oaks |first=Clint |last=Dunaway |date=January 5, 2010 |work=MormonLawyers.com |publisher=Dunaway Law Group (Mesa, Arizona) |access-date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021185940/http://www.mormonlawyers.com/2010/01/harvard-law-school-latter-day-saint.html |archive-date=October 21, 2013 }}</ref> OaksHe graduated in 1957 with a [[Juris Doctor]], ''[[Latin honors#North America|cum laude]]'' in 1957.<ref name="rel" />

Among works edited by Oaks is a collection of essays entitled ''The Wall Between Church and State.'' Since becoming an apostle, Oaks has consistently spoken in favor of religious freedom and warned that it is under threat.<ref>{{citation |url= httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/2011politics/la-xpm-2011-feb/-05/local/-la-me-beliefs-mormon-20110205-story.html |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |title= Religious freedom under siege, Mormon leader says |date= February 5, 2011 |first= Mitchell |last= Landsberg}}</ref> He testified as an official representative of the LDS Church on behalf of the [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]] during congressional hearings in 1991,<ref>{{citation|first=Frederick M. |last=Gedicks |year=1999 |title=No Man's Land: The Place of Latter-day Saints in the Culture War |url=https://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=6585 |journal=[[BYU Studies]] |volume=38 |issue=3 |page=148 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201135626/https://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=6585 |archive-date=February 1, 2014 }}</ref> and then in 1998 in favor of the [[Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act]].<ref>{{citation |last= Oaks |first= Dallin H. |date= Spring 1998 |title= Statement Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary |url= http://jrcls.byu.edu/clark_memo/issues/cmS98.pdf |journal= Clark Memorandum |publisher= [[J. Reuben Clark Law School]], BYU |page= 21 |access-date= January 17, 2014 |archive-date= February 1, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140201135526/http://jrcls.byu.edu/clark_memo/issues/cmS98.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref> This was one of few occasions on which the church has sent a representative to testify on behalf of a bill before the U.S. Congress.<ref name="subcommittee">{{citation |url= http://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ensign/1992/07/news-of-the-church/elder-oaks-testifies-before-us-congressional-subcommittee |title= Elder Oaks Testifies before U.S. Congressional Subcommittee |series= News of the Church |journal= Ensign |date= July 1992 }}</ref>{{efn-ua|This was the third time that an official of the LDS Church brought an official stance to Congress, and in his testimony Oaks stated that his actions as an official church spokesperson were an exception to the general rule of the church's not taking a stand on pending legislation.<ref name="subcommittee" />}}

Oaks married June Dixon (born 1933) on June 24, 1952. She died from cancer on July 21, 1998. They had six children, including Dallin D. Oaks, a linguistics professor at BYU,<ref>{{citation |url= http://linguistics.byu.edu/directory/ddo/ |title= Dallin Dixon Oaks |series= Directory |work= Department of Linguistics and English Language |publisher= BYU |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110516165739/http://linguistics.byu.edu/directory/ddo/ |archive-date= May 16, 2011 }}</ref> and [[Jenny Oaks Baker]], a violinist.<ref name="dispensation" /> TheTheir last child, the Oaks hadJenny, was born 13 years after their fifth child.<ref>[https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865695136/Read-1984-bio-of-President-Oaks-life-at-the-time-of-his-call-to-be-an-apostle.html Walker "Oaks", ''Deseret News'', April 1984]</ref>