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8: The Mormon Proposition

Director Reed Cowan, who is a former Mormon missionary, "planned on making a film about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah, but switched his focus to Mormon ideology because of how it contributes to the homophobia that causes these problems".

A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents

Many researchers use such tools, including this guide, to help decipher records found in genealogical resources, such as the LDS Church's Family History Library.

Benjamín De Hoyos

As a young man, he served a mission in the Mexico Hermosillo Mission, where he first met his wife Evelia Genesta Mendivil, who is a native of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.

Bernos-Beaulac

Mitt Romney was injured in a car accident June 16, 1968 in Bernos-Beaulac, when he was a Mormon missionary in France.

C. Terry Warner

The permanent exhibition, Education in Zion, tells the history of education in the LDS Church, beginning with the spiritual and secular education of Joseph Smith, and continuing through the foundation of educational institutions throughout Church's Kirtland and Nauvoo years, its migration to the Mountain West, and its ultimate worldwide expansion.

Clawson, Utah

On October 25, 1904, LDS Church Apostle Rudger Clawson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles came and organized a ward.

Derek A. Cuthbert

From 1988 until 1991, Cuthbert served as a counselor to Robert L. Simpson, and then Hugh W. Pinnock in the General Presidency of the church's Sunday School.

Emery County Cabin

Prior to his appointment of postmaster, Casper was appointed Presiding Elder of the Muddy Branch of the LDS Church.

Farmington Rock Chapel

The Primary Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was founded by Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the rock church in 1878 with 224 children and now serves millions of children worldwide, adding additional historic significance.

Franklin S. Harris

In the early 1950s Harris worked in Iran, where he served as the president of the LDS Church branch headquartered in Tehran, as reported in the October 1951 general conference.

Gary J. Coleman

In May 2009, some of the area presidencies were reorganised and Coleman was called to serve as the Caribbean Area first counselor with Francisco J. Viñas as president and Wilford W. Andersen, second counselor.

Get the Fire

The film shows missionaries proselyting in public squares, knocking door to door, struggling with a foreign language, congregating in zone and district meetings, and meeting with the mission president.

Helaman

LDS leader Richard J. Maynes cited this entire episode in a General Conference as containing good examples of covenant-keeping behavior.

Horacio A. Tenorio

He later served as a Regional Representative and president of the Mexico Torreón Mission of the church.

Hyrum M. Smith

From October 1896 until February 1898 he presided over the Newcastle Conference.

J. Reuben Clark Law Society

Named in honor of J. Reuben Clark the former Ambassador to Mexico and Under Secretary of State, the society's membership is primarily Mormon, although there is no requirement that members be a part of the LDS Church.

John K. Edmunds

Edmunds was called as patriarch of the Chicago Stake (since renamed the Wilmette Illinois Stake) as well as a member of the General Church Board charged with implementing the new Home Teaching program.

John R. Winder

Maria Burnham was from Fruitland, New Mexico Territory, where the LDS Church congregation was named the Burnham Ward because of her family's prominence in the early history of the area.

Kevin R. Duncan

In the 2000s, Duncan served as president of the church's Chile Santiago North Mission and was also the associate international counsel for the LDS Church in South America.

Kevin W. Pearson

As a general authority, he has served as a counselor in the church's Europe East Area, as an Assistant Executive Director of the Missionary Department, and since 2011, as a counselor in the Pacific Area, based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Koichi Aoyagi

They were married in Japan in 1970 and their marriage was sealed in the Salt Lake Temple a week later.

L. Tom Perry

The death of church president Harold B. Lee created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve when Spencer W. Kimball, who had been serving as quorum president, became church president.

Leamington, Utah

He was the first branch president when the Leamington Branch of the LDS Church was organized in 1876.

LeConte Stewart

He painted several murals for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) buildings, including works found inside the LDS temples in Hawaii, Alberta, and Arizona, as well as murals for the Salt Lake City International Airport and the historic Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel.

Louie B. Felt

On September 14, 1878, Louie B. Felt was chosen by Eliza R. Snow to be the president of the Primary Association in the Salt Lake 11th Ward of the church.

Marlin K. Jensen

As a new Seventy in 1989, he was counselor to John K. Carmack, president of the Utah Central Area.

Martha Beck

During her time as a part time faculty at BYU, five faculty members were excommunicated from the LDS Church as a consequence of public writings that were deemed critical of the church; the group became known as the September Six.

May Anderson

During her tenure in the presidency of the Primary, Anderson initiated the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, which is today part of Intermountain Healthcare.

Milton H. Hardy

Beginning in 1875, church president Brigham Young asked Hardy, John Henry Smith, and B. Morris Young to tour the wards of the church and establish YMMIA programs in each of them.

Montevideo Uruguay Temple

Richard G. Scott, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who was one of the first Mormon missionaries in Uruguay, presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for the temple.

Mormon cosmology

During this pre-existence, two plans were said to have been presented, one championed by Lucifer (Satan) that would have involved loss of moral agency, and another championed by God the Father.

Norman H. Bangerter

After his retirement as governor, Bangerter returned to his construction firm and served for three years as president of the South Africa Johannesburg Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1996 to 1999.

Patricia P. Pinegar

She served in this capacity until 1994, when she became the ninth general president of the Primary, succeeding Michaelene P. Grassli.

Presiding Bishop

Along with the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Presiding Bishopric is a part of the Council on the Disposition of the Tithes, a quorum which oversees and authorizes the expenditure of all tithing funds.

Presiding Patriarch

In 1937 George F. Richards, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was officially called, sustained, and set apart to the office of Acting Presiding Patriarch.

Randy L. Bott

Bott pointed to a passage in Mormon scripture that suggested to him that Cain's descendants were marked with dark skin and were prohibited from holding the priesthood.

Reid N. Nibley

Nibley's hymn "I Know My Father Lives" is in both the Primary Children's Songbook and the 1985 hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Richard G. Scott

One of his missionaries was D. Todd Christofferson, who would later be called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with Scott.

Russell T. Osguthorpe

Osguthorpe has served in the LDS Church as president of the South Dakota Rapid City Mission from 2003 to 2006, an area seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy from 2007 to 2009, and as president of the BYU 18th Stake from 1997 to 2002.

Scofield, Utah

One of them, David Williams, leased the Winter Quarters Mine from the Pleasant Valley Coal Company from 1880 to 1885, operating in the dual capacity of mine manager and bishop of the local LDS Ward.

Sydney S. Reynolds

Sydney Sharon Smith Reynolds (born October 22, 1943) was the first counselor to Coleen K. Menlove in the general presidency of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from October 1999 until April 2005.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona

On March 7, 1943, the Navajo-Zuni Mission was organized, and specialized with teaching Native Americans in their language.

University of Utah Presidents

He continued as president until he was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in the LDS church.

Vaughn J Featherstone

Featherstone spent several years in the Young Men general presidency of the church, and has served in area presidencies in the Philippines and Pacific.

Washington D.C. Temple

On November 30, 2011, J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. and his wife Donna hosted Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Mauro Vieira, with L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presiding.

We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

While preparing to speak at a CES fireside being held at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center on February 7, 1993, then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Howard W. Hunter was confronted by Cody Judy, who rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience of 15,000–17,000.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in the bishopric in his church ward.

Zollikofen

The Bern Switzerland Temple (formerly the Swiss Temple) a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church).


see also

1886 Revelation

The LDS Church, which issued manifestos in 1890 and 1904 to terminate the practice of plural marriage, does not accept the 1886 revelation as authentic.

8: The Mormon Proposition

It states that LDS Church leader Thomas S. Monson asked to ensure the passage of the controversial California Proposition 8.

Agricol Lozano

Lozano's poetry has been compared to that of Walt Whitman and his full-force living of the teaching of the LDS Church to that of Orson Pratt and Parley P. Pratt.

Ammon M. Tenney

However the first on this mission went to the vicinity of Mesa, Arizona and rebaptized Encarnacion Valenzuela, a Papago who had been a member of the LDS Church for some years.

Beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

However, teachings of the LDS Church differ significantly in other ways and encompass a broad set of doctrines, so that the above mentioned denominations usually place the LDS Church outside the bounds of orthodox Christian teaching as summarized in the Nicene Creed.

Christianity in Mongolia

Foreign Christian missionary groups have returned to Mongolia, including Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Russian Orthodox, Presbyterians, Seventh-day Adventists, various evangelical Protestant groups, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement

The LDS Church has not tolerated plural marriages since the 1890 Manifesto was declared.

Ernest Sibanda

After reading from the Book of Mormon, Sibanda resolved to be baptized into the LDS Church, and he was baptized within two weeks of first meeting the missionaries.

Evan Stephens

In his book Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans, published in 1996, historian D. Michael Quinn expresses his view that Stephens had homosexual relationships and that these were tolerated by the LDS Church hierarchy.

Flora Benson

As part of her mission, she taught in the LDS Church-run elementary school in Laie, Hawaii.

Gadfield Elm Chapel

The Gadfield Elm Chapel near the village of Pendock in Worcestershire, England, is the oldest extant chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

The Trust renovated and restored the chapel, and it was dedicated by LDS Church apostle Jeffrey R. Holland on 23 April 2000.

George M. Ottinger

Ottinger joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1858 after which he came to Utah Territory in 1861.

Georgious Y. Cannon

Georgious was the youngest of 32 children born March 6, 1892 to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon.

Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymns : hymns sung at worship services of the LDS Church

Joel Dehlin

Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years in various roles, at Arthur Andersen, and at Novell.

John H. Morgan

John Hamilton Morgan, early educator in Utah Territory, an official of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a politician

John Holladay

In 1851, the Holladay family joined Apostle Amasa Lyman’s LDS Church sanctioned purchase and colonization of Rancho San Bernardino, present-day San Bernardino, CA.

John M. Madsen

One of Madsen's associates at Washington State was Gary J. Coleman, who Madsen baptized into the LDS Church.

Jorge A. Rojas

Rojas convinced his parents, though none of them were Latter-day Saints, to send him to the LDS Church-owned Academia Juárez in Colonia Juárez so he could learn English.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945), Utah politician, newspaper editor, and LDS Church leader

Julie B. Beck

Born in Granger, Utah to William Grant Bangerter and Geraldine Hamblin, Beck grew up in Utah and in São Paulo, Brazil, where her father served as a mission president for the LDS Church for five years.

Keith K. Hilbig

His father, Karl Herbert Hilbig, was an immigrant from Zwickau, Germany who had joined the LDS Church before immigrating to the United States.

Lambda Delta Sigma

Sigma Gamma Chi : an LDS Church fraternity founded in 1936 as Lambda Delta Sigma that spun off the LDS sorority of the same name

LDS Humanitarian Services

In 2001, the LDS Church began the Perpetual Education Fund which provides money to cover tuition and other school expenses to people in developing nations.

LDS Philanthropies

LDS Philanthropies is a department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and is responsible for facilitating donations to humanitarian and education initiatives including Brigham Young University (Provo, Idaho, and Hawaii campuses), LDS Business College, and the Perpetual Education Fund.

Lewis T. Cannon

Lewis was born to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon and Martha Telle Cannon on April 22, 1872.

Lorenzo Snow

The role of Lorenzo Snow was played by Francis L. Urry in the LDS Church made film The Windows of Heaven.

Mary Cook

Mary N. Cook (born 1951), American religious leader of the Young Women in the LDS Church

Mexicans of American descent

More recent prominent Mexican Mormons of American descent include Carl B. Pratt, the current president of the LDS Church's Missionary Training Center in Mexico City and a former General Authority of the church.

Mormonism and Islam

In May 2006, the LDS Church donated $1.6 million USD worth of emergency supplies to devastated areas following the earthquake in Java, Indonesia, teaming up with Islamic Relief Worldwide who provided transportation in conjunction with The Islamic Medical Association of North America.

Mormonism and violence

LDS Church leaders taught the concept of blood atonement well into the 20th century within the context of government-sanctioned capital punishment, and it was responsible for laws in the state of Utah allowing for execution by firing squad (Salt Lake Tribune, 11/5/94, p. D1).

Octaviano Tenorio

When he was fifteen years old, he and his parents joined the LDS Church while they were living in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.

Perpetual Education Fund

The Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) is a program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), first announced by church president Gordon B. Hinckley on March 31, 2001.

Presidents and Prophets

Political figures, such as Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (a member of the LDS Church), as well as academics, such as the University of Florida's Kenneth Wald, have praised it.

Russell M. Nelson

In 1995 Nelson went to Beijing, along with Neal A. Maxwell and other LDS Church leaders, on an official invitation of Li Lanqing who at the time was Vice Premier of China.

Spencer H. Osborn

He served for ten years as president of the LDS Church's Granite Stake in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Temple garment

In 1926, then-LDS Church apostle David O. McKay offered an updated description that was later incorporated into the church's endowment ceremony.

The Search for Truth

The film is prefaced by a monologue from David O. McKay, then-president of the LDS church, and includes interviews with three prominent scientists: Wernher von Braun, the father of rocket science; Harvey Fletcher, the father of stereophonic sound; and Henry Eyring, prominent theoretical chemist.

Uruguayans in Paraguay

Eduardo Gavarret (born 1956 in Minas), general authority of the LDS Church

Vincenzo Di Francesca

However, he is most known for his long struggle to become a member of the LDS Church that is documented in the short LDS Church film How Rare a Possession.

Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, an LDS Church temple operating since 2001 at the encampment site

Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008), American businessman and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The LDS Church