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To: rktman

Hey Mitch, how about apologizing for the blatant racism of your church from before the Civil War to this century!

From 1849 to 1978, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had a policy against the ordination of black men to the priesthood, and forbidding black men and women from taking part in ceremonies in LDS temples.

In 1978, the church’s First Presidency declared in a statement known as “Official Declaration 2” that the ban had been lifted as a result of a revelation from God.

In December 2013, the LDS Church published an essay approved by the First Presidency that disavowed most race-based explanations for the past priesthood restriction and denounced racism.


53 posted on 08/18/2017 8:14:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Wasn’t the anti-black rule changed because of basketball?


95 posted on 08/18/2017 8:31:03 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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