These questions can only be answered Yes or No. Yes must be unqualified; if your answer is “mostly, but there are exceptions,” then for the purposes of this exercise the answer is No. What questions to you say yes to? What does it say about your level of orthodoxy?
- Is it against God’s will to shop on Sunday?
- Is membership in the LDS church and completion of LDS temple ordinances necessary for salvation?
- Is homosexuality immoral?
- Is it important to attend church every week, with exceptions for illness and occasional vacations or travel?
- Is it God’s will that only men should have the priesthood?
- Is the Book of Mormon a historical document describing real civilisations in the ancient Americas?
- Were Adam and Eve literal people and the only progenitors of humanity?
- Is it God’s will that only priesthood-holding men be permitted to act as witnesses for LDS rituals such as baptism and marriage?
- Should tithing be a prerequisite for temple worship?
- Should women with young children who are not yet in school refrain from working outside the home?
- Was it the will of God that black men should have the Curse of Cain (no access to the priesthood) until 1978?
- Did God want the Israelites to engage in genocide of Jericho, including soldiers, citizens, women, children, babies and livestock?
- Were Columbus and the Founding Fathers inspired by God to establish the United States so that the LDS church could be founded?
- Is it impossible for the LDS Church to ever fall into apostasy?
- Should funerals for LDS people be used mostly as a missionary opportunity?
- Should travel and online shopping be avoided on Sundays?
- Should abortion be outlawed?
- Is it possible to be LDS in good standing and a registered Democrat?
- Is oral sex an impure and unclean practise?
- Should divorced people, regardless of the reason for their divorce, be prohibited from marrying again in the temple until a one-year period after a civil marriage has passed?
- Is homosexuality a form of mental illness?
- Is it important to only partake of the sacrament with the right hand?
- Do you believe The Three Nephites and John the Beloved are still alive today?
- Is the earth 6,000 years old?
- Can demons be ordered out of your presence by invoking the name of Jesus Christ?
- Should all four sessions of General Conference always be attended or watched?
- Do you believe you can tell an angel from a demon by shaking his hand?
- Is it acceptable to cut off social contact with apostates?
- Should married women refrain from working outside the home?
- Should people who advocate prayer to a Heavenly Mother be subject to church discipline?
- Should all secular entertainment including music, television, and books be avoided on Sundays?
- Can wearing garments protect you from physical harm?
- Will exalted couples produce literal offspring in the Celestial Kingdom?
- Should homosexual behaviour be criminalised?
- Does birth control violate God’s will?
- Should abortion be criminalised?
- Do you believe that polygamy will be practised at some future time on Earth or in the afterlife?
- Is sex only for procreation?
- Do you believe that Zion will be established as a literal city in Missouri?
- Should Mormons with same sex attraction be required by Church leaders to undergo reparative therapy?
- Is it acceptable to cut off contact with family members who are inactive or apostate?