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Utah Mormons of the mainline church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, generally reject all usage of use the Holy [[Cross]] as a Christian symbol. The Mormon church teaches that the atonement of Christ took place, not primarily on in three stages. Mormons believe the Cross, but rather Atonement of Christ began first in the Garden of Gethsamene Gethsemane, where the weight of the night before His crucifixionsins of humanity brought, "suffering [and] caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit. " (Doctrine and Covenants 19:18) The LDS Bible Dictionary entry for "Atonement" speaks second stage of the shedding Atonement of Our Lord's blood as having taken place ''there''; Christ was His subsequent death crucifixion upon the cross, where Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie taught "while he was hanging on the Cross the following day is relegated cross for another three hours, from noon to a seemingly secondary place3:00 P.M. There is no entry for "Cross" in , all the LDS Bible Dictionary, infinite agonies and its cursory article on "crucifixion" makes no mention whatsoever merciless pains of this salvific event having any role in His AtonementGethsemane recurred. The ''Mormonwiki'' article on "Atonement of Jesus Christ" contains a section entitled "Gethsamene and GolgothaAnd, finally, when the atoning agonies had taken their toll—when the victory had been won," which emphasizes when the time our Lord spent in Son of God had fulfilled the Garden will of Gethsamenehis Father in all 'things—then he said, alleging that it was “It is finished''here'' that (John 19:30), and he voluntarily gave up the genuine ghost."shedding Mormons believe the third stage of blood" the Atonement took place on the third day after His death when He was resurrected form the dead, thus ensuring to effect our salvationall the promise of resurrection.

Many Mormon leaders have denounced As for the wearing or display of the Cross by cross, Mormonshave an interesting history with the symbol. Some In the early history of their statements are contained the LDS Church in the 1830s up through the early 20th century, the cross appears in many places. Historian Michael G. Reed found the cross all over early Mormondom. It appeared as jewelry on Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's wives and daughters. It appeared in floral arrangements in an essay entitled "Why Are There No funerals. It appeared as tie tacks on men's ties and watch fobs on men's vests. It appeared on cattle as the official LDS Church brand. Crosses were on Mormon Churches church windows, attic vents, stained-glass windows and pulpits. They were on gravestones and quilts. Even two temples, the Hawaiian and the Cardston, Alberta, Canada Temple were described in a 1923 general conference as being built in the shape of a cross. According to Reed it wasn't until the mid-20th century, in the late 1950s and Temples?"early 1960s, that Mormons began to stop using the cross as a way to separate themselves from the Roman Catholic Church. <ref>httphttps://memberswww.tripoddeseretnews.com/~Aariusarticle/705328913/nocross.htmMormons-and-the-cross.html</ref>

Since the 1960s, Mormon ambivalence to the cross as a symbol has grown. Some Mormon leaders have denounced the wearing or display of the Cross by Mormons. Most focus more on the symbolic meaning of "taking up our own cross" in imitating of Christ. In this respect, Gregory A. Schwitzer, a member of the Seventy and an LDS General Authority, taught: "We may wonder why we Latter-day Saints don’t place a cross on our churches or wear a cross to show that we are Christians, thereby making it easier for others to identify in whom we believe. Is the cross important to our faith? The answer is an unequivocal yes! The Redeemer’s suffering on the cross is vitally important to us and is an inseparable part of the Atonement, through which He suffered and died for our sins and thereby provided us with a clear path to salvation and exaltation. The Savior was clear when He stated that in following Him we should take upon ourselves a cross—not the Roman cross that was the instrument of death but our own cross, whereby we present a sacrifice to the Lord of our own heart to be obedient to His commandments." <ref>https://www.lds.org/ensign/2011/07/the-meaning-of-the-cross-for-latter-day-saints?lang=eng</ref> Mormon Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley taught this regarding how Mormons view the cross:  "Following the renovation of the Mesa Arizona Temple some years ago, clergy of other religions were invited to tour it on the first day of the open house period. Hundreds responded. In speaking to them, I said we would be pleased to answer any queries they might have. Among these was one from a Protestant minister. Said he: “I’ve been all through this building, this temple which carries on its face the name of Jesus Christ, but nowhere have I seen any representation of the cross, the symbol of Christianity. I have noted your buildings elsewhere and likewise find an absence of the cross. Why is this when you say you believe in Jesus Christ?” I responded: “I do not wish to give offense to any of my Christian colleagues who use the cross on the steeples of their cathedrals and at the altars of their chapels, who wear it on their vestments, and imprint it on their books and other literature. But for us, the cross is the symbol of the dying Christ, while our message is a declaration of the Living Christ.” He then asked: “If you do not use the cross, what is the symbol of your religion?” I replied that the lives of our people must become the most meaningful expression of our faith and, in fact, therefore, the symbol of our worship."<ref>https://www.lds.org/ensign/2005/04/the-symbol-of-our-faith?lang=eng</ref> On the other hand, the late Fr. [[Michael Pomazansky]], author of ''Orthodox Dogmatic Theology'', shows the Orthodox teaching on the Cross as both the ''path'', ''power'' and ''banner'' of the Church. In his essay "The Cross of Christ" (printed in this same book), he gives the Orthodox teaching on the vital importance of our Lord's Cross as the indispensible weapon, not merely in the general victory against Satan and his angels won at Calvary, but equally in our own individual struggles for salvation.<ref>Pomazansky, Protopresbyter Michael, ''Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A Concise Exposition''; [[St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood]], 1997, pp. 326-30.</ref>