Utah Gov. Spencer Cox waded into the controversy surrounding anti-human-trafficking activist Tim Ballard and his possible run for U.S. Senate next year, saying the allegations against Ballard, if true, are “incredibly disturbing” and “unconscionable.”
with senior apostle M. Russell Ballard. The two men are unrelated.
”We’ve received countless communications from concerned members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who told us that they called the church offices to inquire whether or not the statement leaked to a tabloid was actually from the church,” Todd Tueller, CEO of The SPEAR Fund, an anti-trafficking group where Ballard is now a senior adviser, said in a statement.
According to church officials and the reporting of The Salt Lake Tribune, VICE News and the church-owned”There was a lot of pushback, like did this really come from the church? Did it come from a rogue spokesperson?” Cox told reporters. “I reached out to the church personally and was assured that it did come from the church, that it had been vetted through all the normal church processes.”
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