LDS Mormon Facts 91-100
Useful or not, they're still true.
Useful or not, they're still true.
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Author: Curtis Weller
To quote an Apostle of Jesus Christ (of Latter-day Saints);
'Some things that are true are not very useful.'
(Boyd K. Packer, "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater than the Intellect," CES Symposium, 1981.)
This section of WhyMormons.net devotes itself to such factoids about the mainstream LDS Church and its history.
BYU President, George Death, who served as president from 1904 to 1921, committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 29, 1932.
It was October 6, 1946 when then LDS Church Patriarch, Joseph Fielding Smith II,(b. 1899) was released from his divine calling due to the discovery of his recent homosexual activity. The First Presidency tried covering up this reason by claiming that Smith was suffering from poor health.
Wasn't just about the priesthood: It wasn't until 1946 that black members of the LDS church could receive their patriarchal blessings - blessings that do not require that the recipient (male or female) possess the priesthood.
Commandment or policy? On August 17, 1951, the First Presidency made a statement that the LDS church's restriction on negroid peoples' receiving the priesthood 'is not a matter of the declaration of policy but of direct commandment from the Lord.' Later, the LDS church would claim that it never was a commandment, but rather a policy.
Avoid it or advertise it?: It was October 16, 1951, when the Temple council of First Presidency, Quorum of Twelve Apostles and Patriarch to the LDS church decided to allow beer commercials on the LDS church-owned KSL television station.
The LDS Hospital once kept a segregated blood supply to keep 'colored' blood from mixing with white blood. White Mormons would be able to receive blood transfusions with the confidence that they wouldn't be receiving cursed 'negroid' blood.
Bruce R. McConkie was in trouble: Despite its many publications and warm reception by most of the LDS congregation all over the world, the First Presidency privately rebuked Apostle Bruce R. McConkie for authoring his book Mormon Doctrine for its many 'errors and misstatements' and initially forbade the book from being republished.
Joseph Fielding Smith once prophesied that 'We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it.' he then added, 'The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen.' Less than a decade later, U.S. Astronauts are the first men to walk on the moon. To add insult to injury, Sep 14,1971, Apollo 15 astronauts presented President Joseph Fielding Smith with a miniature Utah state flag that had traveled with them to the moon.
Like to dance?: On February 3, 1962, the LDS Church officially banned the youth from dancing the 'Twist.' This prohibition was largely ignored by the youth.
In 1964, 'Ward Teaching' became 'Home Teaching', and the emphasis and priority of placing God first, then church, and then family, was subtly reversed to be family first, then church, and then God.
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