Scripture Sunday Alma 50:39

In case you can't tell, there has been a new president inaugurated this past week. And in case you can't tell, most LDS lean conservative and vote republican. There are a bunch of reasons for this. Most religious people lean republican (no, just because you know one or even several religious democrats that doesn't mean what I said was wrong), and active LDS are among the most serious and intense people about their faith out there. 

This passage is partly why. In this passage a new leader is told to "judge righteously, keep the peace and freedom of the people, and to grant their sacred privileges to worship the Lord and their God to support and maintain the cause of God and to bring the wicked to justice according to the crime." That's an LDS way to run the country. It's also more aligned with the platform of the GOP. Like I said, there are many reasons that the majority of LDS lean slightly to the right, and this might be one of them.