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Teachings on sexuality in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is deeply rooted in its doctrine. [1] In its standards for sexual behavior called the law of chastity, top LDS leaders bar all premarital sex, [2] [3] all homosexual sexual activity, [4] the viewing of pornography, [5] [6] [7] masturbation, [8] [7] [9] overtly sexual kissing, [10]: 194 sexual dancing, and ...
[248] [249] [250] In 1997 then church president Gordon Hinckley declared the church would "do all it can to stop the recognition of same-sex marriage in the United States", and the apostle M. Russell Ballard has said the church is "locked in" if anything interferes with the principle of marriage only being between a man and a woman.
Although there are no official numbers for how many members of the LDS Church identify as gay or lesbian, there have been several estimates. Large surveys of over 7,000 students at the church's largest school Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2020 and 2017 found that over 13% had marked their sexual orientation as something other than "strictly heterosexual", while the other survey showed that ...
1981 – Church leaders funded the writing of a book on sexuality [101] and sent every bishop and stake president a copy. The book was written by Church Welfare Services director [102] Victor L. Brown Junior and stated that habitual masturbation will cause social-emotional isolation and erotic obsession. [58] [59]
Smith initially expressed opposition to slavery, but avoided discussion of the topic after the church was formally organized in 1830. [2]: 16 [10]: 5 During the Missouri years, he tried to maintain peace with the members' pro-slavery neighbors; [2]: 16 in 1835, the church declared it was not "right to interfere with bond-servants, nor baptize them contrary to the will and wish of their masters ...
Alvin Jackson, a Black bishop in the LDS Church, puts his focus on "moving forward rather than looking back." [142] In an interview with Mormon Century, Jason Smith expressed his viewpoint that the membership of the church was not ready for Black people to have the priesthood in the early years of the church, because of prejudice and Black ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a former sponsor of units for the Boy Scouts of America (as of January 1, 2020), teaches that homosexual activity is immoral. [90] The LDS Church was the largest single sponsor of Scouting units with over 30,000 units nationwide, which comprise about 13% of BSA's youth members.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (hereafter FLDS) is a particularly controversial fundamentalist sect which has repeatedly been connected with the concept of lost boys. As early as 1968, the church's home turf of Colorado City, Arizona, had a peace officer whose responsibility was "to make sure that the boys would ...