While the temple marriage, also called a sealing, is an important Mormon tradition, excluding family and friends from the larger celebration doesn’t need to be. A sealing is an ordinance ...

For Mormons, one of the major goals in life—something our children are taught from the time they enter the Sunday School at 3 years old—is to strive for a temple marriage, or sealing.

But in the U.S., where religious ceremonies are legally recognized by the government, Mormon couples were not able to seal their marriage in a temple immediately after a civil wedding. The new ...

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And noncelibate LGBT members are still excluded from “temple recommends ... when one local Mormon leader tried to organize to oppose a pro-marriage-equality initiative, the church shut ...

More than a thousand gay-rights activists gathered Thursday afternoon outside the Mormon temple in Westwood to ... which banned same-sex marriage in California. It was the latest in an escalating ...

She planned for a temple wedding ... experience with marriage, divorce and interfaith parenting — and how the couple negotiate complex theological issues like the Book of Mormon and the Latter ...

(RNS) — When Rachel Rueckert was growing up as a Mormon ... in the temple and that her brothers would serve missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Marriage, it seemed ...

Temples, where Mormons perform sacred ordinances like eternal marriage and baptism of the dead, differ from the more common meeting halls where regular services are held. They are typically ...