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A 2016 survey of self-identified Latter-day Saints revealed that over 60 percent of respondents either "know" or "believe" that the priesthood/temple ban was God's will. [2] A 2023 survey of over 1,000 former church members in the Mormon corridor found race issues in the church to be one of the top three reported reasons why they had ...
[1] [a] LDS Church presidents Heber J. Grant [2] and David O. McKay [3] are known to have privately stated that the restriction was a temporary one, and would be lifted at a future date by a divine revelation to a church president. In 2013, the LDS Church posted an essay about race and the priesthood revelation. [4]
In a landmark 2016 survey, [121] almost two-thirds of 1,156 self-identified Latter-day Saints reported believing that the pre-1978 temple and priesthood ban was "God's will". [122] [123] Nonwhite church members were almost 10 percent more likely to believe that the ban was "God's will" than white members. [124]
It was the second-largest in-hospital blood bank. After the 1978 ending of the priesthood ban, Consolidated Blood Services agreed to supply hospitals with connections to the LDS Church, including LDS Hospital, Primary Children's and Cottonwood Hospitals in Salt Lake City, McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, and Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. Racially ...
Joseph Smith's views on Black people varied during his lifetime. As founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, he included Black people in many ordinances and priesthood ordinations, but held multi-faceted views on racial segregation, the curses of Cain and Ham, and shifted his views on slavery several times, eventually coming to take an anti-slavery stance later in his life.
This painting shows Noah cursing Ham. Smith and Young both taught that Black people were under the curse of Ham, [1] [2] and the curse of Cain. [3]: 27 [4] [5]Teachings on the biblical curse of Cain and the curse of Ham in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and their effects on Black people in the LDS Church have changed throughout the church's history.
Abel joined the other Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory in 1853. By then, Brigham Young had formalized church's policies against Black people. However, no attempt was made to remove Abel's priesthood or drop him from the Third Quorum of the Seventy. He remained active in the Quorum until his death. [citation needed]
Joseph Freeman Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is the first man of black African descent to receive the Melchizedek priesthood [1] and be ordained an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) after the announcement of the 1978 Revelation on Priesthood, which allowed "all worthy male members of the Church" to "be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color."