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2006 – In April the apostle Russell M. Nelson signed a letter with other religious leaders urging the US government to pass a national amendment banning same-sex marriage. The next month the First Presidency released another statement supporting the amendment and urging members to contact their senators.
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. (born September 9, 1924) is an American religious leader and retired surgeon who is the 17th and current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [4] Nelson was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015
2013 – Apostle Russell M. Nelson gave a CES devotional discussing the debate around same-sex marriage. [290] 2013 – On the 20th of December same-sex marriages became legally recognized in Utah and within two hours the first same-sex couple was married. They were two former Mormons, medical researcher Michael Ferguson [291] and historian ...
Russell M. Nelson, a 99-year-old retired heart surgeon turned faith leader, had a conservative track record in his previous position on the faith’s leadership panel, which led many to predict he ...
Additionally, a footnote to a 1995 general conference talk by the apostle Russell M. Nelson noted that loving without racial discrimination is a general commandment, but not one to apply to specific marriage partner criteria since it states that being united in ethnic background increases the probability of a successful marriage. [98]
After the death of church president, Thomas S. Monson, on January 2, 2018, [168] Russell M. Nelson was sustained and set apart as the current president on January 14, 2018. [ 169 ] The First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles , the Presiding Bishopric and the First and Second Quorums of the Seventy are all referred to as general ...
June – President Russell M. Nelson meets with Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma to offer condolences in the shooting three years prior. [394] June – President Dallin H. Oaks speaks at a devotional at BYU Hawaii. He says, "Along with these challenges—and caused by them—we are confronted by a culture of evil and personal wickedness in ...
[26] [27] According to historian D. Michael Quinn, both the late church president Spencer W. Kimball (president from 1973—1985) and current church president Russell M. Nelson (president from 2018—2024) received their second anointing in 1974; Nelson alluded to this experience in his 1979 autobiography. [28] [29]