The civil rights movement, interracial marriage, feminism, LGBTQ rights and other social justice movements have all been called the works of Satan by the LDS Church, writes Keith Burns, a recent BYU graduate.
By Keith Burns | Special to The TribuneBecause leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim that they speak for God, they have often stated that church policies and teachings reflect God’s will, while ideologies that challenge church policies and teachings are Satanic.
The civil rights era was one of the first movements to attract Satanic labels. This was especially true of interracial marriage which, according to, was “a wicked virus” and a Satanic perversion of marital purity. This view was justified by longstanding LDS teachings that people of African descent were morally, intellectually, and spiritually inferior, an idea rooted in theories of premortal existence and biblical scripture.Bruce R.
Feminism was another movement claimed to be led by the devil. Harold B. Lee in his 1972 article titled, “” maintained that the “secular lure” for women to pursue paid labor would deprive children of the crucial nurturing they needed. Further, it would confuse what he claimed to be divinely mandated gender differences, a crisis he felt would lead to a slew of immoralities – especially homosexuality.
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