[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Off the cuff quotes are nice to have, but until the church canonizes it it is just an opinion. I don’t think you want to be responsible for everyone’s opinion in your church either. I don’t let myself get exercised over talks given years ago that were never canonized. Heck, the Cherokee indians had slaves and plantations. I, myself, would rather own a judge than a slave. I think everyone should own a judge. The Clintons seem to own quite a few as they are not pounding big rocks into small rocks despite using government agencies against their opponents like the IRS. I bet there were lots of protestants and catholics that owned slaves and thought it was ok. I think on a sheer wait of numbers the protestants and catholics were bigger into slavery. We were a tiny group back then.

A few comments:

1) Statements and writings from a Mormon Apostle, from a past President of the Mormon Church, and from Brigham Young don't exactly count as "off the cuff" quotes, in my book. They sound like they're reiterating serious, even if "non-canonical" statements of belief.

2) I'm sure there were a lot of Protestants and Catholics who owned slaves too. But most of them stopped considering blacks as spiritual second class citizens before the 1970s.

3) While I (obviously) disagree with Mormonism, I think Huckabee is way off the mark and is really shooting himself in the foot with his attacks on Romney. Theology isn't really pertinent to the Presidency.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

However important you make comments sound, they are not important unless adopted by the church in Gen. Conf. None of your quotes rise above opinion, no one knew why the Lord kept the Priesthood from Blacks until the time was right. I quit trying to figure out why the Lord does what he does. Alot of people speculated as to the reasons, Blacks were never second class citizens in the church they functioned like everybody else they just did hold PH until 1978. We did not segregate like the protestants did. Looking back many years the comments look and sound ridiculous, but alot of things look silly with 20/20 hindsight.