Posted on 02/01/2012 4:11:43 AM PST by Colofornian
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Until 1978, the LDS church banned men of African descent from its priesthood...
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The LDS church has neither formally apologized for the priesthood ban nor publicly repudiated many of the theories used to justify it for more than 125 years.
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...many blacks perceive the LDS church as racist...
...Rev. O’Neal Dozier told The Palm Beach Post...“The Book of Mormon says the Negro skin is cursed.”
...another Mormon scripture, The Pearl of Great Price, says, “blackness came upon” Cain’s descendants, who were “despised among all people.”
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...Tim Russert noted that Romney was 31 when the priesthood ban was lifted in 1978. “Didn’t you think, ‘What am I doing part of an organization that is viewed by many as a racist organization?’” Russert asked.
“I’m very proud of my faith, and it’s the faith of my fathers,” Romney answered. “And I’m not going to distance myself from my faith in any way.”
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“The issue hurt him and it hurt the image of Mormon church,” said Newell Bringhurst, a historian...
...“He’ll face more and more scrutiny on the Mormon-black issue..."
Smith was more blunt.
“The church has never done its due diligence, and guess what? Mitt Romney is taking hell for it.”
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In 1949, the LDS church’s First Presidency...had said the priesthood ban was a “direct commandment from the Lord.” And some LDS leaders regarded as prophets taught that black skin was punishment for souls that lacked valor in a pre-earthly existence.
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Even under intense pressure from black Mormons, the church has refused to formally repudiate past interpretations of doctrine or scripture that tie spiritual worthiness to race.
“If the LDS church were to apologize, that would be casting aspersions on God’s prophets..,” said Richard Ostling...
“I don’t think the Mormon soul could countenance it.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yup...The LDS church CONSTANTLY says that the Lord would NEVER let his church go astray (the so-called "universal apostasy")...even though they preach that the Lord Jesus supposedly let His ENTIRE church go astray a few centuries after ascending.
Weasel words...contradictions...
Look for this theme to be hit upon again & again all thru 2012 if Romney gets the nomination.
Just last week: ...for the most recent -- and best -- MSM article on this Romney link to racism, see Robyn Blumner: Romney's 'Mormon question' should have more to do with LDS church's past racism
From the article: ...Tim Russert noted that Romney was 31 when the priesthood ban was lifted in 1978. “Didn’t you think, ‘What am I doing part of an organization that is viewed by many as a racist organization?’” Russert asked. “I’m very proud of my faith, and it’s the faith of my fathers,” Romney answered. “And I’m not going to distance myself from my faith in any way.”...“The church has never done its due diligence, and guess what? Mitt Romney is taking hell for it.”
Good. He's financially supported this racist org with 10% of his very wealthy income.
Racism's in the Book of Mormon -- and the Pearl of Great Price!
Here's five Book of Mormon verses below talking about how the "skin of blackness" is a "cursing" based upon their "iniquity" (2 Nephi 5:21; Alma 3:6; Jacob 3:5) and how when the curse would be removed, they would again become "white" (3 Nephi 2:15), which the Book of Mormon says is a "delightsome" color (2 Nephi 5:21; cf. older version of 2 Nephi 30:6):
The Mormon "prophets" Nephi, Alma and the Mormon Jacob are racists!
* "And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." (2 Nephi 5:21)
* "...many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and delightsome people." (2 Nephi 30:6, pre-1981 versions...changed from unknown reasons in 1981 to "fair and delightsome"...It's not like the Mormon church has the supposed gold plates to go back and look to interpret a word differently)
* "And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against the their brethren..." (Alma 3:6)
* "Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins..." (Jacob 3:5) [Note: The "Lamanites" per Mormonism are Native Americans...so their skin color, says Mormon "scripture" is based upon a supposed curse]
* "And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites." (3 Nephi 2:15) [Note: So...to be "uncursed" is to have your skin turn white...per Romney's Mormonism, that is!]
The Book of Abraham verses are 1:24-27..."and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land." (v. 24)...Pharaoh was then supposedly "cursed...as pertaining to the Priesthood. Now, Pharaoh, being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood..." (v. 26-27)
Some Mormons talk as if a darker skin color as-a-supposed-curse was just ONLY some talk in the past. Uh, no! Look at the verses above -- Alma 3:6 and Jacob 3:5, for example. They also talk as if the "curse of Ham" being a darker skin color was also just some teaching that's been jettisoned. Well, then why is the Book of Abraham phrasing still there in their Mormon "scripture" -- the Pearl of Great Price?
Well how many black leaders have endorsed Romney so far ???
Lets name them
1.
lets hate Romney for his own putrid band of RINO politics.
I am not a Morman....but please...get off of this.
Well how many black leaders have endorsed Romney so far ???
In short, yes it will because the Stalinist Mitt will be running against will make sure it's an issue.
Blacks will not desert 0bama no matter what, but they may not be so excited about running to the polls, unless he can play the race card
This will be a source of distraction because mission #1 for Hussein is to keep the election focused AWAY FROM HIS RECORD. If the election turns on the economy Barry's toast. This kind of story is the perfect distraction.
And that's just the way it is!
And so the Rats and media will almost certainly give him a pass if he gets the nomination.
Without the guidance of a true believer, the LDS story is so fantastic and unbelievable that the average person will think Mitt Romney either a gullible dunce or a sinister cultist.
Now some may say the history of the traditional Christian church is a bit far-fetched as well—except that history has been accepted and integrated into Western Civilization for centuries—long enough so as to be a given—not so with Joe Smith's creation.
Hey, you don’t like the discussion how about you get off the religion forum, just saying.
The way mormonISM teaches about “the cursed” black skin, is a religious discussion.
So...we have 0bama from a hate-filled church presided over by Jeremiah Wright...and that’s okay. And now we have a candidate running for office from a church that saw black skin as inferior. Some choice...but you can bet your bippy, the latter will get a colonscopy, while the former has already gotten a pass.
I’m so disgusted with the whole process this morning, I may go Galt before the election.
now your repeating yourself...I read it the first time.
it is irrelevant. they use to say a RC could never be elected president...now we have 2 running...Go Newt/Go Santorum.
If the LDS church were to apologize, that would be casting aspersions on God’s prophets..,” said Richard Ostling...
“I don’t think the Mormon soul could countenance it.”...
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Why ???
what are they ???
Klu Klux Klan ???
LLS
As I’ve said, the racial issue is one of the reasons Romney cannot win against Obammie and his Commies. He and the GOP will not engage in the tactics of political warfare that will be necessary to defeat Obammie the Commie. They will use those tactics relentlessly.
The DemocRats will use the race issue like never before, and Robamney will grimace and look down and say, “Yes, we have been an evil nation in that regard and we are sorry.”
He may as well say, “Yes, because of the mythical past you leftists have created and brainwashed Americans with, go ahead and take the presidency for another four years. You deserve it. And I know you’ve said you are against reparations because they don’t go far enough. Let me know what I can do to help you mug America to pay for this mythical past you keep lying about.”
I never thought I’d see the GOP as my enemy. But after McCain and now Romney (who I saw as the establishment pick and the one who would emerge as the candidate several months ago, even before Cain was forced out), I now see the GOP as the enemy of the America that our Founding Fathers created for us.
What exactly is a black leader? You mean a race based leader? Yet this thread and article are whining about race? Talk about Orwellian...
Well, that didn’t take long. Be assured, we will be awash in MSM “Special Reports” on the Mormon church in the days to come: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2840964/posts
Not a Romney fan, but I think this is relevant in a way that could actually help Romney. If/when this is raised he uses it as an opportunity to bring Rev. Wright and Obama’s radical associates into the spotlight it will work in his favor. I highly doubt someone will produce a tape of a Mormon religious service in which someone is saying ‘God**** America’, or any of the anti-white rhetoric that you can show from pastors and associates of Obama.
Whoever the candidate is they need to paint Obama as a radical. “Our nation is sinking into debt, the economies of the free-world are sinking into debt, and Mr. Obama didn't make a course correction. He followed his ideology and spent us into the highest level of debt, and the steepest rise in debt in American history, weakening our nation at a time when the world needs the beacon of hope and opportunity that America has always been.” etc.
Just the start to helping Obummer to win it again. But wait, it’s going to get a lot worse than this!
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