“Black Mormon woman married to a white man. Brigham Young would have had her and her husband killed. Journal of Discourses vol. 10, page 110.”
You’re absolutely right.
I’m a ex-mormon, and I find it bizarre that any black person could join a religion that has stated she is (their words) dark and loathesome, destined to be a servant to white mormons in the afterlife and denied the celestial kingdom solely because of her race, according to the mormon prophets, including Joseph Smith.
That said, if her bona fides are truly conservative, I would vote for her in a heartbeat. The only pause her religion gives me is how the mind works that accepts a faith that has been demeaning, beyond the pale, to her race.
If she’s conservative, she gets the job.
Relating to Romney, I’m not happy with any mormon being the leader of our country, but if he were a true conservative, I could shelve my grievance. But he’s not, and I won’t.
Anti-mormon, you could say. Anti-liberal, definitely. When I vote I figure I’m hiring for a company, and being conservative is the job requirement, no exceptions...and we can argue about God at the end of the day.
I feel the same way about blacks becoming muslims. For many blacks in the U.S., the history of slavery is the defining issue in their political make up, yet so many of them join a religion that was instrumental in the enslavement of their ancestors.