 Thus, as of 1894, the practice of the law of adoption ceased in the LDS Church.There is no evidence to suggest that homosexual sex was involved as part of the original practice of the law of adoption in the 19th century.However, beginning in the 1970s, some members of began to suggest that the leadership of the LDS Church should restore the law of adoption in order to allow same-sex couples to be sealed to each other in the temple in a kind of quasi-celestial marriage.