The Mormon Cult

[FatAndFaithless]

Does anyone know if besides the multiple wife thing, does FLDS continue the racial crap too ??


(BTW, note any of the over 100 schisms of Mormon can't win either way on the racial topic. Fucked up to have it in the first place, fucked up to delete it as it calls into question early leaderships infallibility, and that, by definition, ain't religion)

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(even the Lutherans have dialed back on some of Luther too. Go figure . . . .)

Most recent thing I could find was in '95 and '97.

In 1995, black church member A. David Jackson asked church leaders to issue a declaration repudiating past doctrines that denied various privileges to black people. In particular, Jackson asked the church to disavow the 1949 "Negro Question" declaration from the church Presidency which stated "The attitude of the church with reference to negroes ... is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord ... to the effect that negroes ... are not entitled to the priesthood".

The church leadership did not issue a repudiation, and so in 1997 Jackson, aided by other church members including Armand Mauss, sent a second request to church leaders, which stated that white Mormons felt that the 1978 revelation resolved everything, but that black Mormons react differently when they learn the details. He said that many black Mormons become discouraged and leave the church or become inactive. "When they find out about this, they exit... You end up with the passive African Americans in the church".

Church president Hinckley told the Los Angeles Times: "The 1978 declaration speaks for itself ... I don't see anything further that we need to do". Church leadership did not issue a repudiation. Apostle Dallin H. Oaks said: "It's not the pattern of the Lord to give reasons."

Well that last sentence sure is fucking right. How freaking hard is it to literally say "We got it wrong then, lets get it right now" ?