Posted on 05/22/2007 1:25:14 PM PDT by TChris
The Rev. Al Sharpton spent Monday touring LDS sites, discussing his recently unearthed ancestry and exchanging notes on Christian service with Mormon leaders. By afternoon, the Pentecostal preacher who drew ire for comments he made about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith said his subsequent visit to Salt Lake City had been a valuable experience.
"This visit was not about politics. It was not about controversy," Sharpton told a group of reporters at the LDS Family History Library. "It was about our trying to learn about each other as believers in God and Christ, to find common ground . . .[and] work together for the good of humanity."
Hosted by Elder Robert G. Oaks of the church's First Quorum of Seventy, Sharpton visited the LDS Church's Welfare Square, particularly the humanitarian center, which collects clothes, food and medical supplies to distribute around the world. He toured the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, the Conference Center and the Family History Library, where volunteers described the church's vast genealogical holdings and programs. Utah-based Ancestry.com has discovered Sharpton descended from slaves owned by the forefathers of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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He has been saying for a couple of days that Dr. Dobson said that Fred Thompson wasn’t Christian enough for him to vote for POTUS.
Then Glen had the nerve to tell Dr. Dobson, that it had to be true because he read it in the USA Today and another lefty publication.
Dr. Dobson was dumbfounded that Glen would take those rags for the gospel, no pun intended!
How much did he ask for?
The Church never believed or taught that blacks had no soul. In fact, they could be baptized and become members of the Church just as anyone else all along. The Church opposed slavery, in fact. However, the Priesthood was not offered to blacks until 1979. What religious faith do you associate yourself with? Maybe we can discuss when your faith offered baptism and your version of the "Priesthood" to blacks and to women.
LOL!
Maybe we can discuss when your faith offered baptism and your version of the "Priesthood" to blacks
My faith offered baptism and priestly ordination to men of any ethnic heritage whatsoever one thousand nine hundred and fifty years before your "church" did, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight years before a conman and huckster named Joseph Smith invented a new religion so he could soak people for money and sleep with as many women as he wanted.
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