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Women and western themes feature prominently in Teichert's works, such as The Madonna of 1847, which depicts a mother and child in a covered wagon, crossing the plains to settle in Utah. [ 4 ] : 5, 52–53 Teichert painted over 400 murals, [ 12 ] and is known for those inside the Manti Utah Temple , as well as a set of 42 murals depicting ...
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.
Transgender people and other gender minorities currently face membership restrictions in access to priesthood and temple rites in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—Mormonism's largest denomination. Church leaders have taught gender roles as an important part of their doctrine since its founding.
[1] In the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), early feminist assertions surfaced in the 1840s with the founding of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, Illinois, with Emma Hale Smith as its first president. Eliza R. Snow promoted the idea of a Heavenly Mother [2] and equal status for women.
The LDS Church has held notable political influence on laws around LGBT individuals in the United States, especially in the state of Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been involved with many pieces of legislation relating to LGBT people and their rights (e.g. housing, job discrimination, and same-sex marriage). [1]
LDS Leaders teach that gender is defined in premortal life, [14]: 69–70 [15] and that part of the purpose of mortal life is for men and women to be sealed together in heterosexual marriages, progress eternally after death as gods together, [16] [17] [18]: 6 and produce spiritual children in the afterlife.
During the Great Depression, the LDS apostle George Albert Smith and Relief Society president Louise Robison worked to place a monument for the Relief Society in Nauvoo. They received permission from Frederick M. Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to place the monument on his church's property, the former location of Joseph Smith's Red Brick Store.
While telling the history of the church in the 1800s, Ulrich focuses on how Mormon women responded to polygamy. She also highlights suffrage in Utah during polygamy and women's place in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Ulrich shows that there was a great variety of opinions and feelings about the practice among its ...