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[1]: 1–5 From the mid-1800s to 1978, Mormonism's largest denomination – the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – barred Black women and men from participating in the ordinances of its temples necessary for the highest level of salvation, and excluded most men of Black African descent from ordination in the church's ...
Mormon teachings on skin color have evolved throughout the history of the Latter Day Saint movement, and have been the subject of controversy and criticism.Historically, in Mormonism's largest denomination the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), leaders beginning with founder Joseph Smith taught that dark skin was a sign of a curse from God. [1]
[2]: 42–43 Church president Brigham Young taught on multiple occasions that Black–White marriage merited death for the couple and their children. Until at least the 1960s, the LDS Church—Mormonism's largest denomination—penalized White members who married Black individuals by prohibiting both spouses from entering its temples. [3]
It was the second-largest in-hospital blood bank. After the 1978 ending of the priesthood ban, Consolidated Blood Services agreed to supply hospitals with connections to the LDS Church, including LDS Hospital, Primary Children's and Cottonwood Hospitals in Salt Lake City, McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, and Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. Racially ...
The cast of 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' have been open about their faith and the rules they struggle with
McCary was a half-African American convert who, after his baptism and ordination to the priesthood, began to claim to be a prophet and the possessor of other supernatural gifts. [105] At one point, he also claimed to be Adam of the Bible. [36]: 135 He was excommunicated for apostasy in March 1847 and expelled from Winter Quarters. [7]
Within a decade of settling the Salt Lake Valley over 400 Indigenous American children were purchased and lived in Mormon homes. [13] In 1849 a posse of around 100 LDS men in southern Utah chased and killed twenty-five Native American men in retaliation for some cattle raids, and enslaved their women and children. [87]: 274
Joseph Freeman, Jr. was the first African American to receive the Melchizedek priesthood after the 1978 revelation. [31] Freeman was also the first Black member ever to receive church temple ordinances. [32] On June 23, 1978, Freeman was sealed to his wife and five children in the Salt Lake Temple by then-apostle Thomas S. Monson. [31] [32]