• Before receiving his call to serve in San Francisco, Mayne had been attending an LDS congregation in Oakland, where Mormons have been especially active in efforts to repair damage to interfaith and LDS-LGBT relations since the LDS Church's heavy involvement in California's 2008 Proposition 8 campaign. (religiondispatches.org)
  • The LDS Church's recent investments in anti-marriage-equality campaigns like Proposition 8 have created deep divides in Mormon families and communities, giving those who take the most condemnatory view of homosexuality a sense of institutional backing, while discouraging many liberal Mormons and LDS people with LGBT friends and relatives. (religiondispatches.org)
  • What should a believing Mormon do upon discovering the church's hidden history: maintain the appearance of belief for family's sake or openly acknowledge disbelief? (lds-mormon.com)
  • Mormons "explain our faith to anyone who will listen" and "treat Muslims like anybody else," said Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles, one of the church's top governing bodies in Salt Lake City. (latimes.com)
  • Or the church's own Mormon Channel, Mormon Messages, "Meet the Mormons" movies or even the official website, lds.org? (blackchristiannews.com)
  • But LGBT parents can request that their children be blessed by a member of the church's priesthood and, when the child turns 8, the church "will contact them and propose that the child be baptized," the church said in its statement. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • Churches with congregational polities show up in tax cases as ministers have a hard time distinguishing between their assets and the church's assets. (culteducation.com)
  • In May 1994 I saw an advertisement for books on Mormonism published by the University of Illinois Press which included B. H. Roberts's Studies of the Book of Mormon . (lds-mormon.com)
  • One new book that attempts to shed light on the ex-Mormon world is "Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-day Saints ," by Marshall Brooks. (sltrib.com)
  • Mormons Think the Righteous Prosper Mormonism is similar to the prosperity gospel. (exmormon.org)
  • New Level of Ex-Mormon View of Mormonism changes over time. (exmormon.org)
  • Questionnaire for Mormon Investigators An excellent questionare for those looking at joining Mormonism. (exmormon.org)
  • The vast majority of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church), belonging to Mormonism. (reingex.com)
  • Like Catholicism, Mormonism is hierarchical and based on a form of apostolic succession with one person at the top, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who is considered a prophet who can receive revelations. (culteducation.com)
  • [13] Dr. James White, a Christian pastor, has stated that Mormonism is more different from Christianity than Islam because, he states, Mormonism is polytheistic , while Islam is monotheistic, and whether a religion is monotheistic or polytheistic is the basic element to a religion, according to White. (conservapedia.com)
  • The role Jesus Christ plays in Mormonism is often a popular topic among people who are not Mormon. (mormonchurch.com)
  • On January 5, 1959, apostle Marion G. Romney was assigned by church president David O. McKay to read and report on the book. (wikipedia.org)
  • and the overall authoritative tone throughout the book, though in general Romney had a high regard for Mormon Doctrine and felt it filled an evident need remarkably well. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mitt Romney, perhaps America's most famous Mormon, spent two years on a mission in France before attending Brigham Young University. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • Live under a rock, actually on top of one-ha, and hadn't heard about Romney being a Mormon. (blogspot.com)
  • Notable American Mormons today include Former Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, Singers Donny and Marie Osmond, Democratic Senator Harry Reid, and writer Stephanie Meyer. (interexchange.org)
  • Retiring RINO Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and the late liberal Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) were outspokenly hostile as Mormon politicians against conservative leaders, and the growth rate in membership in the Mormon Church has declined during their prominence. (conservapedia.com)
  • Mayne is particularly committed to reaching out to the many LGBT Mormons who live within his congregation's service area. (religiondispatches.org)
  • A welcoming home in a religious tradition that has a profound and lasting impact on its members, and a chance to express their faith through the path of service: that's what Mitch Mayne and many other LGBT Mormons want. (religiondispatches.org)
  • While most Mormons view homosexual sexual activity as a sin, Church leaders have expressed divergent perspectives on LGBT issues, ranging from condemnatory and derisive to ameliorative and compassionate. (religiondispatches.org)
  • The church still has a very, very long way to go to be LGBT affirming, but even the harshest critic must acknowledge the progress of the past decade," Dr. John Dehlin, a Mormon personal counselor and social activist told Newsweek . (newsweek.com)
  • The former policy, announced in 2015, had angered liberal and LGBT Mormons, and some 1,500 left the church in protest, according to one activist . (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • LGBT Mormons are expected to be chaste, according to church teachings. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • Salt Lake City, Apostle Dallin Oaks made it clear that the Mormon hierarchy still doesn't like the LGBT community very much. (queerty.com)
  • Late Sunday, news came across the Mormon grapevine: an openly gay Mormon man named Mitch Mayne had been asked (or "called," in Mormon parlance) to serve as a leader in an LDS congregation in San Francisco. (religiondispatches.org)
  • Given that reality, the website Mormon and Gay launched last year to help gay Mormons openly discuss maintaining their faith without practicing their sexuality. (newsweek.com)
  • Mormon writers like Terry Tempest Williams fearlessly spoke out for the rural southern Utah "downwinders" who lived under plumes of atomic fallout, their lives and their wholeness knowingly sacrificed by the United States government, while Carol Lynn Pearson penned a play that dared to celebrate openly our hushed Mormon belief in God the Mother. (womensenews.org)
  • Until Mormons openly and widely discuss "the impact of racialized theology and the language used to uphold it," the black Mormon said, "this won't be the last time we have this issue. (sltrib.com)
  • I moved about eight blocks south of BYU in Provo, so I lived in a typical suburban neighborhood, and attended church with a local ward [congregation]. (sltrib.com)
  • How one Pentecostal pastor taught his Congregation to love Mormons. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Dean Jackson recalls his childhood days of traveling with his missionary parents to donor churches during furlough. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The impressive Missionary Training Center swarms with a new batch of 5,000 young men every three weeks, gearing up for their two years of door-to-door service to the church. (christianitytoday.com)
  • As the Mormons expanded missionary efforts and made their controversial practice of polygamy (multiple marriages) more well known, the U.S. government ramped up the tension and created the conditions for the Utah War, a minor conflict between 1857 and 1858 between Mormon settlers and the U.S. government then led by President James Buchanan. (interexchange.org)
  • From the time we are young, many of us that are members of the Latter-Day Saint religion are taught about missionary work. (hubpages.com)
  • Many of them served honorably as Mormon missionaries. (religiondispatches.org)
  • What are Mormon Missionaries Doing in Kosovo? (religionandpolitics.org)
  • So began a typical day for a pair of Mormon missionaries in Kosovo. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • A year after the Mormon Church lowered the minimum age for female missionaries from 21 to 19, a quarter of all missionaries are now women. (npr.org)
  • Mormons increased their visibility globally by sending Missionaries throughout South America, Europe, and Africa. (interexchange.org)
  • Sources I spoke with in the San Francisco Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirm that Mayne's calling was conducted according to LDS Church policy and that it does not represent an innovation but simply an implementation of policies permitting any member who is found worthy by their local priesthood leaders to serve. (religiondispatches.org)
  • Kate Kelly, who founded the Ordain Women movement, which calls for the ordination of women into the Mormon priesthood, and John P. Dehlin, who founded "Mormon Stories," a website that publishes interviews on "hot-button issues for Mormons questioning their faith," both received letters in the past week from local church leaders notifying them that they faced excommunication for apostasy. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • One by one, Mormon feminist historians were publishing books reconstructing the lost worlds of early Mormon women, who, we learned, once commanded priesthood powers and forms of authority lost to women in the modern bureaucratic church. (womensenews.org)
  • Any Male member of the church over 12 in good standing is called a member of the Priesthood. (queerty.com)
  • It wasn't until 1978 that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lifted a more than centurylong ban on black men and boys joining its all-male priesthood and black women and girls from entering LDS temples. (sltrib.com)
  • Place all the work of the Church under priesthood direction. (mormonmatters.org)
  • During the early 1990s Joanna Brooks was at Utah's Brigham Young University during the rise of Mormon feminism. (womensenews.org)
  • WOMENSENEWS)-So it happened that I was there at Brigham Young University just in time to witness a remarkable upwelling of Mormon feminism, a feminism that started very simply in basement classrooms with the idea that all were alike unto God . (womensenews.org)
  • It was happening again in the early 1990s at Brigham Young University, another wave of Mormon feminism. (womensenews.org)
  • Brigham Young University professor and renowned Mormon intellectual Eugene England, speaking on the same panel as Anderson, reacted immediately by denouncing the Strengthening the Members Committee and calling for its dissolution. (womensenews.org)
  • This city is home to Brigham Young University (BYU)-less than a mile from Jackson's modest church, Rock Canyon Assembly. (christianitytoday.com)
  • As Brigham Young University's mascot, Cosmo the Cougar, Charlie Bird was the face of athletics at the nation's largest Mormon university, but he was hiding a significant part of his identity -- that he was gay. (advocate.com)
  • After Joseph Smith died in 1844, another Mormon leader named Brigham Young took over and organized Mormons into pioneer bands that travelled from the east and made Smith's prediction come true. (interexchange.org)
  • Brigham Young brought the Mormons to what was then known as the Utah Territory, where they could live according to their own customs. (interexchange.org)
  • Brigham Young University, a school owned and operated by the Mormon Church, and the largest religious university in Utah, is named after the Mormon leader Brigham Young. (interexchange.org)
  • Led by Brigham Young , these pioneers trekked 1,300 miles (2,092 kilometers) westward to the Salt Lake Valley, to escape persecution, and founded Salt Lake City , Utah , where the Latter-Day Saint Church continues to be headquartered today. (conservapedia.com)
  • Students say Brigham Young University is policing this behavior even more than its parent church does. (advocate.com)
  • Author Believes 2019 Killings of Three Mormon Mothers and Their Children by Cartel in Mexico Was Revenge Attack Meant to Send a Message to. (blackchristiannews.com)
  • The lawsuit is a direct result of a 2019 complaint to the IRS that alleged the church had a hundred-billion-dollar reserve fund that it used to bail out two of its for-profit entities. (ksmu.org)
  • How to detail the early days of Mormon polygamy and Joseph Smith's plural wives , including one who was 14. (sltrib.com)
  • Ironically, the Mormons with their polygamy and marring pre-pubescent girls is more in line with the Bible than the religious hypocrites in other denominations espouse. (queerty.com)
  • For two centuries the Mormons were heavily persecuted for their beliefs in particular polygamy and in later years their stance on blacks. (queerty.com)
  • And Polygamy was, by the end of the 1800s, renounced by the Mormon Church and is no longer practiced by Latter Day Saints members. (interexchange.org)
  • Though not always directly stated, the stories told repeatedly in church about fallen souls who threw away their salvation by rejecting Mormon Christianity made it clear that one's state of belief in Joseph Smith's stories had "eternal" consequences [see also story #112 at exmormon.org ]. (lds-mormon.com)
  • [10] In addition, the Southern Baptist Convention states that the Mormon religion is "not consistent with biblical Christianity. (conservapedia.com)
  • [12] According to Beliefnet.com there are a number of differences between the Mormon faith and traditional Christianity. (conservapedia.com)
  • It was viewed by many members both then and now as representing official doctrine despite never being endorsed by the church. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nearly a year later, after meeting to discuss the book, the January 8, 1960 office notes of McKay reflect: "We [the First Presidency of the church] decided that Bruce R. McConkie's book, 'Mormon Doctrine' recently published by Bookcraft Company, must not be re-published, as it is full of errors and misstatements, and it is most unfortunate that it has received such wide circulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over the years, highly publicized public messaging campaigns like " I'm a Mormon " have sought to subvert common assumptions about LDS doctrine and culture, but stereotypes endure. (religionnews.com)
  • Church doctrine directs members to avoid alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and "illegal drugs," although the medicinal use of cannabis is not directly addressed. (hightimes.com)
  • Nevertheless, some Mormons say the pamphlet reflects the beliefs of many Mormons about homosexuality. (newsweek.com)
  • The constitution protects freedom of religion and states the government will consider the religious beliefs of society and form cooperative relations with the Roman Catholic Church and other religious faiths. (state.gov)
  • Different traditions, beliefs, and practices surrounding death are common to all cultures and religions, and they have resulted in conflict regarding anatomic dissections and postmortem examinations. (medscape.com)
  • 1] People from more westernized or diverse environments tend to have less cohesive connections with traditions, religion, and beliefs, and have a greater acceptance of autopsies. (medscape.com)
  • Although cultural or religious beliefs are often cited as a reason for opposition to autopsy, most religions and cultures find autopsy acceptable on the basis of either the individual's beliefs or under what are deemed to be special circumstances. (medscape.com)
  • In 2018, it was declared that the church would no longer use shortened names such as "Mormon" or "LDS church" to identify themselves. (conservapedia.com)
  • M. Russell Ballard, "The Atonement and the Value of One Soul," Ensign, May 2004, 84) Note: Elder Ballard is a Mormon apostle. (mormonchurch.com)
  • I worry that the church is kind of shooting the messenger," Dehlin said. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • The Mormon church has significantly softened its position on the origins of same-sexuality, and no longer overtly encourages reparative or conversion therapy," Dehlin added. (newsweek.com)
  • The 1981 guidebook, released this week by the transparency group MormonLeaks, provides some insights into what many young Mormons have been taught about sexual development and homosexuality over the years. (newsweek.com)
  • Liberal Mormons tend to view homosexuality as a naturally-occurring human trait that is not abhorrent to God. (religiondispatches.org)
  • Although Mormons tend to be referred to by the term "Mormon," Mormon is actually only a nickname originally applied by people who disliked the early Mormons (in the same way the term Christian was initially used only by outsiders). (mormonchurch.com)
  • Jacob is the author of the Book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon . (mormonwiki.com)
  • It was intended primarily for a Latter-day Saint audience and has been used as a reference book by church members because of its comprehensive nature, and was a highly influential all-time bestseller in the LDS community. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now they spend their days in Pristina "tracting," or going from door to door with The Book of Mormon , and proselytizing in the streets. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • The much-publicized news conference showcasing the so-called "seer stone" that historians say Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Mormon, the faith's signature scripture. (sltrib.com)
  • I offer a brief summary of what we know of the Book of Mormon "translation" process. (lds-mormon.com)
  • my note: The words "Urim and Thummim" were never used to describe the stones until after the Book of Mormon was published. (lds-mormon.com)
  • The third or 1840 edition of the Book of Mormon was printed with this statement, "Carefully Revised by the Translator. (lds-mormon.com)
  • Joseph Smith mentioned several times that he translated the Book of Mormon record through the gift and power of God by means of the "Urim and Thummim", but the term was used ambiguously. (lds-mormon.com)
  • The words "Urim and Thummim" did not appear in the Book of Mormon, early revelations, or early newspaper accounts. (lds-mormon.com)
  • In this excerpt from her memoir, "The Book of Mormon Girl," she describes the repercussions of this growing movement. (womensenews.org)
  • It must have worked (the punishment, not the teachings in the book) because I don't recall him ever becoming mormon. (blogspot.com)
  • He preached that he began to be visited by angels, who gave him the teachings that were to become known as the Book of Mormon, the sacred text upon which the Mormon religion was based. (interexchange.org)
  • In the Book of Mormon, a companion volume to the Bible, Jesus informs some of His followers that if you name your church after a person, it becomes that person's church. (mormonchurch.com)
  • This project started out as his dissertation in cultural anthropology, where he embedded himself in Provo to connect with ex-Mormons and try to understand their lives. (sltrib.com)
  • After serving churches in Amarillo, Texas, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he came in 1991 to a setting almost as foreign and cross-cultural as the Japanese mission field: Provo, Utah. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In a statement, a church spokesman called Huntsman's claims baseless and said Huntsman left the church last year. (ksmu.org)
  • The brief concludes by arguing that, instead of imposing an outcome Congress did not intend, the Supreme Court should allow Congress and state legislatures to reach compromises where transgender persons can be appropriately accommodated without infringing on the free exercise of religion, while seeking fairness for all," church spokesman Eric Hawkins told the Salt Lake City Tribune . (lgbtqnation.com)
  • During that time, he has led the release of "Saints," the first in a planned four-volume narrative history of the church, and the production of landmark essays that tackle some of the pricklier points of Latter-day Saint history and teachings. (sltrib.com)
  • Latter Day Saint movement (Mormons). (reingex.com)
  • The Mormons, or Latter Day Saint Movement , refers to some independent Christian Churches based on the teachings of Joseph Smith , born in 1805 in Vermont (the U.S.), who initiated the so-called "Restoration" of the old church of Christ. (reingex.com)
  • Robison is discussing Glenn Beck who, as a faithful and practicing Mormon, believes the following about Christ Jesus. (apprising.org)
  • Christ is part of the true name for the religion of Mormons. (mormonchurch.com)
  • The guidebook also lays out guidelines for counseling Mormons with "homosexual problems. (newsweek.com)
  • Persons who have engaged in homosexual activities and who have not totally repented and forsaken these evil practices will not be admitted to study at or be employed by any church university, college, school, or program," the guidebook reads. (newsweek.com)
  • In recent years, some Mormons have taken the position that homosexuality itself is not sinful but engaging in homosexual sex is. (newsweek.com)
  • Though traditionally associated with conservative values, the Mormon Church is increasingly liberal on social issues such as the homosexual agenda and transgenderism , and Utah did not initially enact strong pro-life laws like the Heartbeat Bill . (conservapedia.com)
  • According to the Lutheran Missouri Synod , "The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, together with the vast majority of Christian denominations in the United States, does not regard the Mormon church as a Christian church. (conservapedia.com)
  • One of the greatest witnesses of Mormon belief in the Savior and his atonement is found in 2 Nephi chapter 9. (mormonwiki.com)
  • Each Sunday, Mormons take the Sacrament (communion) to remember the atonement. (mormonchurch.com)
  • Mormons believe that Jesus took on Himself our sins and that this atonement makes it possible for us to be saved. (mormonchurch.com)
  • The enemy of men's souls did so with the neo-liberal cult operating within the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church . (apprising.org)
  • While Utah is becoming more liberal, that may be because Utah is experiencing an influx of non-LDS immigrants, and not because the LDS Church is liberalizing. (conservapedia.com)
  • Previously, our Handbook characterized same-gender marriage by a member as apostasy," the church said in a statement. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • While we still consider such a marriage to be a serious transgression, it will not be treated as apostasy for purposes of Church discipline. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • According to the Mormons, the Christian Church after Christ's death, entered into a period called by them "the great apostasy ," in which the truths of the Gospel were lost. (reingex.com)
  • Consequently, many conservative Mormons continue to believe that sexual orientation is changeable, a gravely sinful "lifestyle" choice to be simply rejected, or a condition to be "struggled" with and overcome, like alcoholism. (religiondispatches.org)
  • As a scholar of immigration, race and religion , particularly in the LDS church, I often encounter a stereotype that it is overwhelmingly conservative, white and American. (religionnews.com)
  • His religion (Mormon) is still seen by many as an impediment to greater appeal among socially-conservative evangelical Christian primary voters. (go.com)
  • Most of those leaving are conservative, as it's expected the church will soon adopt more LGBTQ-affirming policies. (advocate.com)
  • Since being a full tither is one of the requirements to be admitted to the temple and participation in services, the Mormon practice was raised (along with Protestant pew rents, Catholic Mass stipends and Jewish temple dues) as an example of quid pro quo practices that were never questioned by the IRS. (culteducation.com)
  • Religious leaders said the state favored Catholicism in permitting citizens to allocate a portion of their taxes to the Catholic Church or charities, but not other religions, and retired Catholic priests to receive government pensions, while laws made it difficult for Protestant pastors to do so. (state.gov)
  • The Mormon church hates self-love. (newsweek.com)
  • Queerty, even in articles where you grudgingly admit that the Mormon church hates gays you want to soft peddle what they are actually doing. (queerty.com)
  • After a frank discussion with local Church leaders, Mayne committed to adhere to the same standards of sexual morality expected of heterosexual members of the LDS Church, and he agreed to serve. (religiondispatches.org)
  • We have so many people on the Church records who are inactive, whose families are still members. (religiondispatches.org)
  • What interested me was hearing a disconnect between the typical narratives that you hear constructed about the church from the P.R. people and from everyday members, and the more disenchanted or doubting members and ex-Mormons. (sltrib.com)
  • It was particularly sad to read about those whose decision to leave the LDS Church had ruptured their relationships with family members, who don't quite know what to do with this person who used to be "all in" and now has left the fold. (sltrib.com)
  • Ex-Mormons are not easy for church members to dismiss. (sltrib.com)
  • 16 It has been both heavily criticized by some church leaders and members and well regarded by others. (wikipedia.org)
  • With a cast of more than 500, most of whom are Latino members of the church, the program incorporates music, dancing and spiritual messages in a celebration of Latino identity across cultures. (religionnews.com)
  • Using LDS church statistics and Pew Research reports, I estimate around 40% of members worldwide are from Latin America, or descended from people who are. (religionnews.com)
  • Beginning in 2021, for example, the church began a bilingual campaign using the holiday Dia de los Muertos as a way for members to share its teachings about life after death. (religionnews.com)
  • Many members of the Mormon church still believe many of the concepts and ideas put forth in the 1981 manual. (newsweek.com)
  • For the past decade and more, the church has used the nickname "Mormon" in the official names of websites, media channels and international branding campaigns like "I'm a Mormon," in which church members were encouraged to share who they are and finish their video or written statements by saying their name and stating, "and I'm a Mormon. (blackchristiannews.com)
  • On Aug. 6, 1992, at a gathering of Mormon liberals, artists and intellectuals in Salt Lake City, Lavina Fielding Anderson, a sixth generation member of the church, a feminist historian and editor of the "Journal of Mormon History," disclosed the existence of the Strengthening the Members Committee, "an internal espionage system" organized by church elders in the 1980s to keep files on members perceived to be critical of the church. (womensenews.org)
  • He explained to newspapers that the committee "receives complaints from church members about other members who have made statements that 'conceivably could do harm to the church,'" then "pass the information along to the person's ecclesiastical leader" to "provide local church leadership with information designed to help them counsel with members who, however well-meaning, may hinder the progress of the church through public criticism. (womensenews.org)
  • Another Mormon elder compared the Strengthening the Members Committee to a kind of "clipping service" that tracked critical writings, including letters to the editors, published by church members. (womensenews.org)
  • That same summer, church members Paul and Margaret Merrill Toscano founded the Mormon Alliance to counter what they described as growing patterns of spiritual intimidation within the institutional Mormon Church. (womensenews.org)
  • SONJA HUTSON, BYLINE: Church members are expected to give 10% of their income as tithing. (ksmu.org)
  • But that complaint led some members to leave the religion. (ksmu.org)
  • Sigg said church members are not sure what to think about the incident. (religionnewsblog.com)
  • The Mormons directly or indirectly though members has pumped millions of dollars against us in states across the United States and in many other countries. (queerty.com)
  • The Mormon religion has over 15 million members throughout the world. (interexchange.org)
  • even within our own families that perhaps aren't members yet, or maybe they know nothing of the church and it's precepts. (hubpages.com)
  • Its members are colloquially referred to as "Mormons. (conservapedia.com)
  • As of 2015, the Church reports over 15.3 million members worldwide. (conservapedia.com)
  • Originally an American religion, most of its members are outside of the United States now, and church leaders are pro- immigration . (conservapedia.com)
  • Having been forced from Missouri in 1839, Church members gathered in Illinois and built a thriving city called Nauvoo in a swampy bend of the Mississippi River. (conservapedia.com)
  • The church has now expanded to more than 13 million members. (conservapedia.com)
  • Church members follow a law of health known as the Word of Wisdom that promotes healthy eating as well as avoiding tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, and illegal drugs. (conservapedia.com)
  • and the LDS Church because of its history and the present experiences of black members. (sltrib.com)
  • The views of the Mormon Church can be very influential in state politics in Utah, where 60 percent of the population are members of the church. (hightimes.com)
  • The Mormon church believes homosexuality is "of grave concern" because it may involve violent or criminal behavior and is as sinful as heterosexual adultery and fornication, the guidebook says. (newsweek.com)
  • The website is owned by the church and is the first time the church acknowledged that people do not choose to be gay. (newsweek.com)
  • At the time, the church said it created a rainy day fund as part of wise financial management and followed all tax laws. (ksmu.org)
  • Apprising Ministries has been showing you that this pouty postmodern time of timid tolerance was the perfect playing field for Satan to launch his attack upon the proper Christian spirituality of sola Scriptura within the mainstream of the visible church. (apprising.org)
  • At the same time Satan's deceitful spirits have been relentlessly bombarding us with doctrines of demons through EC propaganda that God is faithfully working in other religions. (apprising.org)
  • Some of the Mormon women have seen the gays fighting back and have decided it is time to take on not only the bigotry of the Mormon church but it's sexism as well. (queerty.com)
  • This time last year, the Mormon Church made a big change. (npr.org)
  • Joseph Smith became interested in religion during this time, and in 1820, Smith says that he began to receive visions from God. (interexchange.org)
  • This movement arose after centuries of ridicule, persecution and even violence against homosexuals," church leader Neill F. Marriott said at the time. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • The term Latter-day Saints differentiates today's Mormons (living in the last days) from the ancient Christians in terms of time. (mormonchurch.com)
  • Thursday's press conference was the first time the Mormon Church has publicly stated its opposition to Proposition 2. (hightimes.com)
  • This is the first time I've taken a proper look at Church News, is this an authoritative website? (mormonmatters.org)
  • We are very aware of the history of Mormons as a group that was chastised in America," says Maher Hathout, a senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles. (latimes.com)
  • According to Blomberg, the Mormon Church is the owner of more than 1 million hectares in America. (reingex.com)
  • The first ad featured a 30 something woman who looked as nice as nice can be and who chatted about her volunteer work in…I think it was Central America…and about how helping others humbled her chil'ren and that she's a mom and a Mormon. (blogspot.com)
  • Though the relationship has raised eyebrows and provided ammunition for critics of both religions, Mormons and Muslims have deepening ties in the United States. (latimes.com)
  • What binds them has little to do with theology: Mormons venerate Jesus as interpreted by founder Joseph Smith, while Muslims view Muhammad as God's prophet. (latimes.com)
  • And Mormons and Muslims say they often are co-hosts of educational and social programs at which, though some may be angling for long-term doctrinal influence, very little open proselytizing of each other seems to take place. (latimes.com)
  • Both faiths adhere to religion-based health codes, including prohibitions against alcohol, but Mormons and Muslims share something more: membership in quickly growing minority religions that many other Americans have sometimes viewed with suspicion and scorn. (latimes.com)
  • That helps us Mormons identify with Muslims. (latimes.com)
  • A recent national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that although a thin majority of those polled expressed positive opinions of Muslims and Mormons, the number was significantly less than those favoring Roman Catholics or Jews. (latimes.com)
  • [7] The U.S religious landscape survey published in February 2008 shows that Mormons have the largest families closely followed by Muslims. (conservapedia.com)
  • As more Americans leave organized religion, a number of studies have attempted to understand why: Who are these people, and why are so many saying goodbye to the religions of their childhoods? (sltrib.com)
  • By the late 1840s, tensions between Mormons and other Americans had escalated to violence. (interexchange.org)
  • Meanwhile, the listing of 158 different Mormon "wards" takes up nearly five columns in the White Pages. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Inviting friends and neighbors in your local community to ward or stake activities is a great and fun way to introduce those around you to some of the fun and uplifting type activities often partaken by those within the wards and stakes of the church. (hubpages.com)
  • Non-Mormons and ex-Mormons love how they can get Mormon news before their Mormon families and friends. (exmormon.org)
  • But whats beyond offensive is the fact that the Osmond Family which is still after all these years one of the most famous Mormon families in the world, and who and has hundreds of thousands of fans, link to and supports these homophobic lies and misinformation. (back2stonewall.com)
  • The news elicited immediate questions on Twitter and elsewhere: What will happen to the name of the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir? (blackchristiannews.com)
  • [14] The Roman Catholic Church does not accept Mormon baptisms as Christian baptisms. (conservapedia.com)
  • The government has a bilateral agreement with the Holy See that grants the Roman Catholic Church special benefits. (state.gov)
  • In LDS communities, where lay congregational leaders have positions analogous to those of priests, pastors, and rabbis, news of Mayne's calling is having an impact, revealing continuing divisions among Mormons and questions about evolving Mormon views on homosexuality. (religiondispatches.org)
  • There is, in fact, no consensus Mormon view on homosexuality. (religiondispatches.org)
  • The Mormon church guidebook claims homosexuality is a learned behavior. (newsweek.com)
  • The pamphlet was created in 1981, and the Mormon church has become somewhat more tolerant of homosexuality since it was issued. (newsweek.com)
  • Homosexuality is still contentious for many Mormons, but the church has become more tolerant. (newsweek.com)
  • That's funny when the church is pushing for an exemption to any gay rights laws for anybody with a religious or moral belief against homosexuality. (queerty.com)
  • The Mormons say that the Father is at least functionally over the Son and the Holy Ghost , and they are the only Gods with which we have to do. (conservapedia.com)
  • In the past, LDS Church leaders have endorsed conversion therapies, or encouraged gay Mormons enter heterosexual marriages. (religiondispatches.org)
  • The group received permission to hold the first campus discussion on LGBTQ issues, and he has heard encouraging words from some Mormon leaders, including Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (advocate.com)
  • After ongoing efforts to find compromise with the LGBTQ community, the LDS (Mormon) Church joined six other religious groups in filing an amicus brief in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board - the case brought by transgender teen Gavin Grimm that's headed to the U.S. Supreme Court next month. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • It's earlier support of a state law barring anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing and employment while protecting "religious freedom" signaled to some that the church was moving toward a middle ground. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • But Neca Allgood, a Mormon whose son is transgender, told the Tribune she doesn't see it as an issue of religious freedom. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • Most people are not diligent in their practice of Islam, thinking of their religion more as a piece of cultural and historical identity. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • Peterson and Racine both left home a few months ago for their mission, the standard two years of service for devout Mormon young people. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • People in our church really seemed to enter into enthusiastic praise and worship. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The second ad featured a 30 something man who also looked as nice as nice can be and who chatted about his love of surfing and his belief that people are cool or something like that and then he said he was a husband and a Mormon. (blogspot.com)
  • Cause while these ads show nice as nice can be people who anyone would like to share a cup of coffee with, they completely ignore the other Mormons up in the temple…you know, those Mormons that tossed enough money to feed a developing country for years into anti gay marriage campaigns a couple of years ago and are proud to have done it. (blogspot.com)
  • Since the pro-prop8ers (including Mormons) already have their appeal ready - they want you to know it's not because of their religious intolerance or their biological ignorance - they're really just nice people who want to save the sanctity of marriage. (blogspot.com)
  • Before his death, Smith predicted that the Mormon people would eventually travel to the Western United States and establish their Zion, or holy land, in the Rocky Mountains. (interexchange.org)
  • [4] This seems to make the false equivalence between the people of Utah and the LDS Church. (conservapedia.com)
  • Church pulls song after lyrical references to "white" raise concerns among people of color. (sltrib.com)
  • This is important because it tells people several important things about the church. (mormonchurch.com)
  • do people look to church news as some would look to GC or the Ensign? (mormonmatters.org)
  • Many stereotypes about the LDS church are rooted in its controversial history. (religionnews.com)
  • The past seven or so years, he has been the church historian, overseeing the faith's history department. (sltrib.com)
  • Arnold H. Green, a history professor at BYU, has traced how early Mormons in the 19th century were hounded by accusations that church founder Smith was the American Muhammad. (latimes.com)
  • That's according to Matthew Bowman, who teaches Mormon history at Claremont Graduate University. (ksmu.org)
  • It is not surprising that Mormons of color and others objected to the lyrics, given the Utah-based faith's racial history. (sltrib.com)
  • Gay Mormons who do not renounce their sexual orientation will be prohibited from participating in the church, it adds. (newsweek.com)
  • The church almost certainly either provides in-kind housing or designates a housing allowance for General Authorities who draw a salary from the church. (culteducation.com)
  • A tithing case which went deeper into Mormon practice was that of George Thompson. (culteducation.com)
  • My ethnographic research focuses on the experiences of Latina Mormon mothers in the U.S. and internationally, highlighting the diversity of the modern church. (religionnews.com)
  • are so entangled with the concept and experience of race, this song is very inappropriate," Janan Graham-Russell, a black Mormon writer in Evanston, Ill., said on Facebook. (sltrib.com)
  • I'm divorced I was baptized in the Pentecostal church also married their. (answerbag.com)
  • Elder Jack N. Gerard, joined by politicians, church leaders, and healthcare providers, announced at a press conference on Thursday that the Mormon Church will oppose Proposition 2. (hightimes.com)
  • Mormon politicians including Gov. Gary R. Herbert, businesspeople, and civic leaders have also publicly opposed Proposition 2. (hightimes.com)
  • Church leaders were surprised by its publication since he had not asked permission and was not asked to develop such a work. (wikipedia.org)
  • In recent weeks, various Church leaders and departments have initiated the necessary steps to do so. (blackchristiannews.com)
  • On May 18, 1993, church leaders identified the objects of surveillance, when Boyd K. Packer, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, delivered a speech to the Mormon All-Church Coordinating Council declaring that the three greatest "dangers" to the church were the "gay-lesbian movement," "the feminist movement" and the "so-called scholars or intellectuals. (womensenews.org)
  • The Mormon church will no longer label same-sex couples "apostates" and will allow their children to be baptized into the church without special approval from church leaders, the church said in a surprise announcement. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • While the Mormon Church has taken much more of a hands-off approach on marriage equality than it did in California in 2008, don't think for a minute Church leaders are happy about our progress. (queerty.com)
  • It's important to church leaders that there not be feelings of offense or misunderstanding associated with the song. (sltrib.com)
  • In April, church leaders released a statement praising the Utah Medical Association for its position on the proposition that cautioned "that the proposed Utah marijuana initiative would compromise the health and safety of Utah communities," according to media reports . (hightimes.com)
  • The following month, church leaders released a statement saying that there were legal concerns associated with the proposition, including "significant challenges for law enforcement. (hightimes.com)
  • Shanz added that his group is pleased that church leaders have now publicly stated their position on the initiative. (hightimes.com)
  • Growing up in a Salt Lake Mormon family in the 1960s meant church was an every Sunday event. (lds-mormon.com)
  • Part of what it has meant for them to be Mormon is gender identity, and how they are supposed to use their sexuality to build up an eternal family. (sltrib.com)
  • But when someone has been in the church for 45 years and held various positions, and may be a member of your own family, it's harder to dismiss that person. (sltrib.com)
  • Both religions strongly emphasize family. (latimes.com)
  • A member of a prominent Mormon family is suing the church. (ksmu.org)
  • She was adopted five years ago by a Mormon family here. (npr.org)
  • According to a 1995 LDS Church proclamation on the family, "gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • Today, now that the Mormons are considered more mainstream, the persecuted has become the persecutors. (queerty.com)
  • The war was resolved through negotiations with the government and over the years, the Mormon religion established itself as a mainstream religion. (interexchange.org)
  • The church has officially denounced past "theories" that saw black skin as a sign of "divine disfavor. (sltrib.com)
  • The Mormon Church has officially voiced its opinion on Utah's medical marijuana bill. (hightimes.com)
  • The Mormon Church has officially voiced its opposition to efforts to legalize medical marijuana in Utah. (hightimes.com)
  • CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Arson fires early Sunday caused about $500,000 in damage to the inside of the largest Mormon church building in Charlotte, authorities said. (religionnewsblog.com)
  • The Mormons are a religious group founded in the early 1800s by a man named Joseph Smith. (interexchange.org)
  • Joseph Smith and his followers were often persecuted in these early days of the church. (interexchange.org)
  • Several months later, Bishop Don Fletcher of the San Francisco Bay Ward asked him to serve as ward executive secretary, a leadership position that serves with the ward lay-pastoral leadership (or "bishopric," in Mormon terms) to coordinate congregational administrative and pastoral functions and to participate in congregational executive-level decision-making as well. (religiondispatches.org)
  • In my three years of fieldwork in the U.S. Southwest, I have found that Latina women, in particular, are a backbone of local growth and support for the church, with more women active in their local congregations than men. (religionnews.com)
  • Life is Good as an ex-Mormon A Former Poster Returns after 4 Years. (exmormon.org)
  • Although the conflict between Albanians and Serbs was rooted primarily in ethnicity and nationalism rather than religion, the former group was Muslim and the latter, Orthodox Christian. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • It is especially evident in Southern California, with large Mormon and Muslim populations. (latimes.com)
  • The Mormon Church has become the biggest contributor to Buena Park-based Islamic Relief, touted by its administrators as the West's largest Muslim-based charity. (latimes.com)
  • The first Mormons angrily denied any connection to the Muslim prophet but gradually accepted some comparisons, particularly that both religions were founded by post-Christian prophets with strong sectarian views. (latimes.com)
  • Anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim statements in social media and public speech continued, and there were reports of vandalism against mosques and churches. (state.gov)
  • She would've been out of college for more than a year and perhaps, like many young Mormon women in their 20s, in the cusp of getting married. (npr.org)
  • The plan called for making the new song "White" based on scriptural allusions to purity one of the resources approved for next year's Young Women program for teenage Mormon girls. (sltrib.com)
  • A song aimed at young Mormons is not a good medium for complex notions about sin, argued Rigel Hawthorne on the same blog. (sltrib.com)
  • Pope Benedict XVI, the retired pontiff who served as head of the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013, has died at the age of 95 on Dec. 31. (eonline.com)
  • What do you know about the catholic church? (answerbag.com)
  • How many sacraments does the Catholic Church have? (answerbag.com)
  • What is the Catholic Church ruling on this. (answerbag.com)