(April 2, 2015 at 9:17 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Hamites and Canaanites are negroes. And God has cursed them with the dark skin and flattened noses.
Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines and Covenants are EXTREMELY clear. All white people will be exalted in heaven before a single person with even one drop of Hamite blood in their veins will be.
The back of the bus thing applies in Mormon heaven.
LDS may claim racial tolerance these days, but their liberalization was accomplished by executive fiat (they didn't even bother to use their standard 'revelation from God' routine, and their scriptures, dogma, edicts, and strictures remain unchanged. While they may risk excommunication because of that executive fiat, Mormons in Indiana would have a VERY strong case for denying services in Indiana because of all their sacred writings.
Exactly the example that keeps coming to mind for me. If religious freedom includes the right to discriminate against others, then Mormons can throw out their 1978 edict and return to discriminating against people of dark skin (as the African descent thing was a later justification for the church so they could go proselytize in "dark-skinned" Polynesian countries).
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
