She was critical of the official Mormon attitude toward marriage and women, and her outspokenness combined with the revelation about the ceremony earned her an excommunication. Laake wrote of her marriage at the age of nineteen and the reasons she and other Mormon women often feel pressured into such early unions.
While its methods of worship and most of its doctrines vary only slightly from those of other Christian faiths, it is reported that some adherents still practice polygamy and there are secret church ceremonies that members are foresworn not to reveal.įormer Mormon Deborah Laake broke that rule in her 1993 book, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond. Since its inception in the first half of the nineteenth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been surrounded by controversy. Deborah Laake was raised as a member of the LDS Church.
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