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Sorensen, assistant director of public affairs at the LDS Multi-Stake Public Affairs Council, also expressed support for the separation between civil union and marriage, stating that his church defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman...
Understanding Mormonism Re your report "The Storm Over the Mormons," on the issue of Proposal 8 in California [June 22]. Indeed, the LDS Church went to great lengths against same-sex marriages in California. However, the church is no longer as monolithic as it likes to depict itself. Many LDS members in California joined the other side, supporting the right to marry without discrimination. Also, in the International Church, as the LDS Church is called beyond the U.S. and Canada, the issue is viewed differently. Morals are the legitimate domain of a church, but any public action...
...they do, said LDSSA historian Nicola A. Harris ’10. This year, the main themes in the Q&A session were marriage, the value of family, and women’s role in the church. Attendees asked about Mormon attitudes regarding marriages between homosexual couples, marriage between LDS members and non-LDS members. Others questioned why women were not allowed to be on the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a governing body in the Mormon church hierarchy, and why they are not expected to go on missions to seek converts. Harris, who will be going on a mission...
...1980s and '90s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was shaken by the exposure of forged documents related to its founding. The counterfeiter responsible for the fakes was a disgruntled Mormon missionary ... He created and sold titillating documents - including one that purported to show that LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced magic. In [Mark William] Hoffman's most notorious forgery, he presented Smith as a man visited not by an angel but by a giant white salamander...
...Mormons have a long history of progressive politics, dating back to founder Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign which called for the abolition of slavery. Although in more recent decades LDS adherents have acquired a reputation for conservatism, Mormons such as Stewart Udall (Secretary of the Interior) and Esther Peterson (Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau) have served the country in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. In January 2005, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others organized the Mormon Democratic Congressional Caucus in hopes of tapping into this progressive tradition of politics among Mormons...