Editing Religion and sexuality (section)

====Latter Day Saints movement====
{{main|Sexuality and Mormonism}}
{{see also|Masturbation and the LDS Church|Homosexuality and the LDS Church|Mormonism and polygamy|Birth control and the LDS Church}}
Within the many branches of the [[Latter Day Saints movement]], the principal denomination, [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), teaches conservative views around [[sexual ethics]] in their [[Law of Chastity]], which holds that masturbation, pre- and extra-marital sex, and same-sex sexual activity are sins. In the mid-1800s, however, it was allowed for men to be married to and have children with several women, and this was also discontinued in the late 1800s.<ref>{{cite web|title=An Ethical Mormon Life|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/religion/religions/mormon/socialvalues/ethics_1.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219201706/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/socialvalues/ethics_1.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-12-19|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
<!--https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng-->On various occasions,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Malan |first1=Mark Kim |last2=Bullough |first2=Vern |title=Historical development of new masturbation attitudes in Mormon culture: Silence, secular conformity, counterrevolution, and emerging reform |journal=Sexuality and Culture |date=December 2005 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=80–127 |doi=10.1007/s12119-005-1003-z |citeseerx=10.1.1.597.8039 |s2cid=145480822 }}</ref><ref name=TYMO>{{citation|last=Packer |first=Boyd |author-link=Boyd K. Packer |title=To Young Men Only |year=1976 |publisher=LDS Church |url=https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/language-materials/33382_eng.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311171249/https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/language-materials/33382_eng.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-11 }}</ref> LDS Church leaders have taught that members should not masturbate<ref name="1990 FTSOY">{{cite book|title=For the Strength of Youth|date=1990|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|edition=7|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/marriage-and-family-relations-instructors-manual/part-b-parents-responsibilities-to-strengthen-families/lesson-14-teaching-gospel-principles-to-children-part-2?lang=eng&clang=tam}}</ref><ref name="KimballOnMorality">{{Citation|last=Kimball|first=Spencer|author-link=Spencer W. Kimball|title=President Kimball Speaks Out on Morality|year=1980|url= https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/11/president-kimball-speaks-out-on-morality?lang=eng}}</ref><ref name="Miracle">{{Citation|last=Kimball|first=Spencer|author-link=Spencer W. Kimball|title=The Miracle of Forgiveness|year=1969|publisher=[[Bookcraft]]|pages=25, 77–78, 182 |isbn=978-0-88494-192-7|title-link=The Miracle of Forgiveness}}</ref> as part of obedience to the LDS [[law of chastity]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Featherstone|first1=Vaughn|title=A Self-Inflicted Purging|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1975/04/a-self-inflicted-purging?lang=eng&_r=1|website=ChurchofJesusChrist.org|publisher=LDS Church|access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=McConkie|first1=Bruce R.|title=Mormon Doctrine|date=1958|pages=610, 708|publisher=Deseret Book}}</ref> The LDS Church believes that sex outside of opposite-sex marriage is sinful, and that any same-sex sexual activity is a serious sin.<ref name="Gay Mormons">{{cite journal |last1=Bradshaw |first1=William S. |last2=Heaton |first2=Tim B. |last3=Decoo |first3=Ellen |last4=Dehlin |first4=John P. |last5=Galliher |first5=Renee V. |last6=Crowell |first6=Katherine A. |title=Religious Experiences of GBTQ Mormon Males: Religious Experiences of GBTQ Mormon Males |journal=Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |date=May 2015 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=311–329 |doi=10.1111/jssr.12181 }}</ref> God is believed to be in a heterosexual marriage with the [[Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)|Heavenly Mother]], and Mormons believe that opposite-sex marriage is what God wants for all his children. Top LDS Church leaders formerly taught that attractions to those of the same sex were a sin or disease that could be changed or fixed,<ref name="Gay Mormons" /> but now have no stance on the etiology<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview With Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Lance B. Wickman: "Same-Gender Attraction"|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/interview-oaks-wickman-same-gender-attraction|website=Mormon Newsroom|publisher=LDS Church|access-date=9 November 2016}} "The Church does not have a position on the causes of any of ... same-gender attraction. Those are scientific questions ... Whether nature or nurture—those are things the Church doesn't have a position on."</ref> of homosexuality, and teach that therapy focused on changing sexual orientation is unethical.<ref>{{cite web|title=Seeking Professional Help|url=https://mormonandgay.churchofjesuschrist.org/articles/seeking-professional-help|website=mormonandgay.lds.org|publisher=LDS Church|access-date=25 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722181608/https://mormonandgay.churchofjesuschrist.org/articles/seeking-professional-help|archive-date=22 July 2019|url-status=dead}} "[I]t is unethical to focus professional treatment on an assumption that a change in sexual orientation will or must occur."</ref> Lesbian, gay, and bisexual members are, thus, left with the option of attempting to [[Sexual orientation change efforts|change their sexual orientation]], entering a [[Mixed-orientation marriage|mixed-orientation opposite-sex marriage]], or living a [[Celibacy|celibate]] lifestyle without any sexual expression (including [[Masturbation and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|masturbation]]).<ref name="Conservative Christian Identity">{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Rick|title=Conservative Christian Identity & Same-Sex Orientation: The Case of Gay Mormons|date=2005|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|location=Frankfurt, Germany|isbn=978-0820474809|url=https://www.uvu.edu/religiousstudies/docs/msc_philips_conservative.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418092803/https://www.uvu.edu/religiousstudies/docs/msc_philips_conservative.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-04-18|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref>{{rp|11}}

The LDS Church teaches that women's principal role is to raise children. Women who rejected this role as being a domestic woman in the home, were seen as unstable and corrupted.<ref name="Dunfey">{{cite journal |last1=Dunfey |first1=Julie |title='Living the Principle' of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century |journal=Feminist Studies |date=1984 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=523–536 |doi=10.2307/3178042 |jstor=3178042 |hdl=2027/spo.0499697.0010.312 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Before 1890, the Mormon leaders taught that polygamy was a way to salvation, and many had multiple wives into the early 1900s, and some women practiced polyandry.<ref name="Dunfey" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng|website=ChurchofJesusChrist.org|publisher=LDS Church}} See footnote 29.</ref>

The Mormon religion teaches that marriage should be with a man and a woman. The LDS Church teaches its members to obey the law of chastity, which says that "sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully wedded as husband and wife." Violations of this code include: "adultery, being without natural affection, lustfulness, infidelity, incontinence, filthy communications, impurity, inordinate affection, fornication." The traditional Mormon religion forbids all homosexual behavior, whether it be intra-marriage or extramarital. In Romans 1:24-32, Paul preached to the Romans that homosexual behavior was sinful. In Leviticus 20:13, Moses included in his law that homosexual actions and behaviors were against God's will. In the 1830s, LDS founder, [[Joseph Smith]], instituted the private practice on polygamy. The practice was defended by the church as a matter of religious freedom. In 1890, the church practice was terminated. Since the termination of polygamy, Mormons have solely believed in marriage between two people, and those two people being a man and a woman. The LDS community states that they still love homosexuals as sons and daughters of the Lord, but if they act upon their inclinations, then they are subject to discipline of the church.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Williams|first1=Alan|title=Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads|journal=Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought|date=2011|volume=44|issue=1|pages=53–84,230|doi=10.5406/dialjmormthou.44.1.0053|s2cid=171900135|id={{ProQuest|858948153}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dehlin |first1=John P. |last2=Galliher |first2=Renee V. |last3=Bradshaw |first3=William S. |last4=Crowell |first4=Katherine A. |title=Psychosocial Correlates of Religious Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction: A Mormon Perspective |journal=Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health |date=3 July 2014 |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=284–311 |doi=10.1080/19359705.2014.912970 |s2cid=144153586 }}</ref>