This guest column is from Carol Lynn Pearson, author of “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy,” reacting to the 2025 curriculum for children of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A paramount doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a belief in God the ... Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands ...

Question: Whether the baptism conferred by the community “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, called “Mormons” in the vernacular, is valid. Response: Negative.