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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints calls out racism and sees abortion as evil
April 4, 2021 / 3:02 PM / AP
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decried abortion as evil and issued another plea for members to combat prejudice and racism during the first day of a church conference that kicked off Saturday without attendees because of the coronavirus pandemic. The faith known widely as the Mormon church has long opposed abortion, but addressed it only sparingly in recent years.
Lawmakers in Republican-governed Legislatures in the U.S. are considering an array of anti-abortion restrictions this year that they hope might reach the Supreme Court and win approval from its conservative majority, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right to abortion.
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| Updated: April 5, 2021, 12:25 a.m.
Strong denunciations of cyberbullying, racism and violence against people of color along with pleas to embrace the “unmarried, widowed or divorced” in the family-focused faith highlighted the first day of the 191st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“We have been heartbroken to hear of recent attacks on people who are Black, Asian, Latino or of any other group,” apostle Gary E. Stevenson said Saturday morning. “Prejudice, racial tension or violence should never have any place in our neighborhoods, communities or within the church.”
Two fellow apostles, pointing to statistics that show more than half of Latter-day Saint adults are widowed, divorced or not yet married, lamented that single members sometimes feel “alone” or that “they don’t belong” in a faith that preaches eternal marriage as its loftiest religious rite.
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