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A Las Vegas jury determined in 1978 that the will, leaving Dummar $156 million, was a forgery. [4] Dummar's story was later adapted into Jonathan Demme's film Melvin and Howard in 1980, in which he was portrayed by actor Paul Le Mat. A 2005 reinvestigation of the circumstances surrounding the so-called Dummar Will yielded new evidence not ...
1978 – The church reissued Spencer W. Kimball's New Horizons for Homosexuals as a 30-page pamphlet titled A Letter to a Friend. [9] Cover to the pamphlet containing apostle Boyd K. Packer's 1978 BYU speech on homosexuality. March – Packer delivered a sermon at BYU on March 5 which went on to be published by the church as a pamphlet called ...
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 ...
Later, reflecting on this exchange with the First Presidency, Dr. Nelson would say, "I believe I was the first Mormon to protest the church policy with regard to blacks in a letter to the First Presidency of the church in 1947", [112] and in 1953 published the article "Mormons and the Negro", [113] saying that "This was the first [time] the non ...
Instead of protesting, eight women members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wrote, edited and published "The Not-So-Secret Lives of REAL ‘Mormon' Wives" — in under two months ...
The LDS Church does not recognize trans women as women, but defines gender as the "biological sex at birth". [1] The church teaches that if a person is born intersex, the decision to determine the child's sex is left to the parents, with the guidance of medical professionals, and that such decisions can be made at birth or can be delayed until medically necessary.
(Reuters) - The Mormon church has admitted that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having maintained for ...
2019 – Endowment wording where women were previously urged to be a priestess "unto her husband," while men were promised they will be priests to God [46] was altered, and more lines were added for Eve. [47] [48] Additionally, women were no longer required to cover their faces with the veil during certain portions of the ceremony. [44] [45]