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...people of other faiths, the Mormon temple is an impenetrable place of mystery. Whether it is the Gothic-spired colossus in Salt Lake City, the bone white cruciform on Hawaii's Oahu island or any of the other temples that serve the 3.3 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the curious outsider invariably meets a closed door. Only Mormons in good standing can participate in the holy "ordinances" that are performed in the temple precincts, or even visit the rooms where they are performed...
Beginning next week, for a six-week period ending on Oct. 26, the non-Mormon public will have a rare chance to see the inside of one of the Saints' temples. The occasion is the opening of the church's 16th temple, a $15 million structure that rises spectacularly out of green woodland in Kensington, Md., near Washington, D.C. As with other temples before it, the Washington temple is being opened to visitors before its November dedication in part to dispel any suspicion of bizarre rituals inside...
...however, Kissinger requested and then Attorney General John Mitchell ordered that the FBI tap the telephones of Radford and four associates for a six-month period. Radford, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, admits knowing Anderson-they worshiped at the same Mormon church in Washington-but he denies that he was the source of the leak...
Kimball takes an equally pragmatic view of other Mormon practices. One remarkable doctrine, for instance, holds that the dead as well as the living can be offered baptism as Mormons. This sends troops of elderly members to the church's temples to enroll ancestors...
...president is not likely to change Mormon views on the family or race. He is a devoted husband and father (four living children, 27 grandchildren) who insists that under normal circumstances "the place of women is in the home." As for the controversial Mormon doctrine that keeps blacks from full membership in the church, he notes that the teaching "is the policy of the Lord." He adds that "we are subject to revelations of the Lord in case he should ever wish to make a change." Few expect, however, that Spencer Kimball will receive the necessary revelation...