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In August 1915, the LDS Church banned the use of cannabis by its members, and two months later the state of Utah banned cannabis.Some scholars have linked the two events, arguing that cannabis usage by Mormon returnees who had earlier fled to Mexico led the church, and later the state, to make their decisions. [1]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church also recommends that its members abstain from tobacco use. [8] It has called for governments to enact policies that include "a uniform ban on all tobacco advertising, stricter laws prohibiting smoking in non-residential public places, more aggressive and systematic public education, and substantially higher ...
An editorial in the sectarian (LDS Church) Deseret News responded: [67] [68] The LDS Church has a zero tolerance policy concerning sexual misconduct. It also gives specific instruction on conducting one-on-one interviews with youths, including encouraging them to have parents or other trustworthy adults sit directly outside the room.
The basic beliefs and traditions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) have a cultural impact that distinguishes church members, practices and activities. The culture is geographically concentrated in the Mormon Corridor in the United States, and is present to a lesser extent in many places of the world where Latter ...
It also restricts sweet vape flavours and will review the packaging of e-cigarettes to reduce their appeal to children and young people. The legislation includes a total ban on vape advertising ...
June 13, 1978 edition of BYU student newspaper The Universe about the end of the Latter-day Saint ban on Black male ordination. The 1978 Declaration on Priesthood was an announcement by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that reversed a long-standing policy excluding men of Black African descent from ordination to the denomination's priesthood and both ...
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] Even after the temple and priesthood ban was lifted for Black members in 1978 the church still officially discouraged any marriages across ethnic lines.
The LDS Church becomes involved in political matters if it perceives that there is a moral issue at stake and wields considerable influence on a national level [1] [2] [3] with over a dozen members of Congress having membership in the church in the early 2000s, [4] and about 80% of Utah state lawmakers identifying as LDS.