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In 1978 Mormons abandoned their teachings about black inferiority....The Southern Baptists are called that because they split off because they objected to criticism of slavery from northern Baptists. A lot of southern (and other ) Protestant groups taught innate black inferiority at least up into the 60s, often basing this on ludicrous misinterpretations of Scripture involving the Curse of Cain or the curse of Canaan, etc. From about the 1880s to the 1920s or so this was a consensus in America. The Catholic Church in America was strongly opposed to abolition of slavery.I believe Jesus had something to say about motes and beams.

Such a strange statement, chronologically speaking. A group that only left these teachings at their altar in 1978 is indirectly defended here...And yet the Southern Baptists and Catholics that indeed shed the beams of racism it held (Catholics by the 1860s, when the abolition movement abolished slavery) -- and the mixed-bag Protestants, tho later, yet 'tween the 1860s and well before 1978, are castigated.

[Note: My reference to "indirectly defended" here includes any lack of real critique of Mormon racism by you.]

So, you don't think the Catholics & Protestants ALREADY removed those real beams you reference?

What hoops do they STILL need to jump thru to make ANY decisive clear statements on racism? (Or are they FOREVER banned in your eyes from condemning racism?)

A group that only left these teachings at their altar in 1978 is indirectly defended here...And yet the Southern Baptists ... that indeed shed the beams of racism it held

Are you seriously contending that Southern Baptists abandoned racism "long before" 1978?

Do you remember the history of the 60s and 70s at all? Most white southerners, many of them Baptists, had to be dragged forcibly into recognition of equal rights during this period.

The Southern Baptists didn't formally apologize for their history of racism and support of slavery until 1995. FWIW.

I am not a fan of Mormonism. Just opposed to claims that they were uniquely guilty of racism, a sin of which just about all American churches have been guilty, with abandonment of this unbiblical doctrine at various times by different churches, some of them not long at all before the Mormons capitulated on the issue.