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At Picnic for Black Mormons, No Sign of Church’s Biased Past (NY Times Mormon Hate on Cue)
NY Times ^
| 6/11/11
| Mark Oppenheimer
Posted on 06/11/2011 6:41:16 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah On Christmas Day in 1964, the day before Darius A. Gray was to be baptized as a Mormon, he learned that the church would not allow a black man, like him, to be in the priesthood.
I was not amused, Mr. Gray recalled with a rueful smile.
It was last Saturday, and we were sitting with about 300 other Mormons, including dozens of children, at the annual picnic of the Genesis Group, a social organization for black Mormons and their friends. Some were Latino or American Indian, and nearly half were white, the parents and siblings of adopted black children. It was the most racially integrated church event I had ever attended.
Having been introduced to Mormonism by kindly white neighbors in his hometown of Colorado Springs, the teenage Darius read his way through much of the scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had no idea about the racist church policy. His newfound faith was badly shaken.
I went home and prayed, Mr. Gray said. And I received a personal revelation, an inspiration from God: This is the restored Gospel, and you are to join. So the next day, I entered into the waters of baptism. Then the next day I went to church as a member for the first time. And a little girl addressed him using a certain racial epithet. That was a first, too.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: blacks; inman; mormon
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To: greyfoxx39
You forgot the exclamation points!!!!!
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posted on
06/14/2011 9:45:44 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: Morpheus2009
Chances are that they (radical islam) would trample the LDS faith under their faith had they the power to do so. You might be correct if mormons and muslims were not partnering together for a variety of issues. This partnership has been growing quite rapidly over the last 15 years.
122
posted on
06/14/2011 9:47:50 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: Morpheus2009
Why are you still here then?
123
posted on
06/14/2011 9:49:31 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(The MSM is an enemy of the United States of America)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No answer no proof.....why am I not surprised.
124
posted on
06/14/2011 9:52:07 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: Morpheus2009
I have an idea, don’t enter the religion forum.
125
posted on
06/14/2011 9:53:40 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: svcw
So anybody who believes in freedom of religion must be a Mormon, eh?
Bizarre. But you probably get that a lot.
126
posted on
06/14/2011 9:59:51 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You win. I have know idea what you are talking about.
127
posted on
06/14/2011 10:04:37 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You win. I have no idea what you are talking about.
128
posted on
06/14/2011 10:05:00 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Catholic parochial school, Dominican nuns, Jesuit high school. If you're still Catholic, mormonism calls your church, "The great whore of Babylon" and your church recognizes mormonism as a cult.
To: E. Pluribus Unum; svcw; greyfoxx39
So anybody who believes in freedom of religion must be a Mormon, eh?...Jesuit high school [post #115]
Wow! It's historical fact that of all the segments of Catholicism that was harshest vs. the Reformers & Protestants it was the Jesuits.
Did you preach your "freedom of religion" message to the Jesuits about their own counter-reformation history?
130
posted on
06/14/2011 1:15:57 PM PDT
by
Colofornian
(I already have a God as my leader. Why do I need ANOTHER one as POTUS?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is it WORKING yet?
131
posted on
06/14/2011 3:23:31 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Quite the hater, aren't you? Is it WORKING yet?
132
posted on
06/14/2011 3:24:20 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I believe in freedom of religion. Simple as that. You believe in....
HMMmm...
And you do not LIKE his belief; eh?
133
posted on
06/14/2011 3:25:58 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don't read psychopathYou DONB'T??
You had ME fooled; for you TYPE it quite well!
134
posted on
06/14/2011 3:27:23 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
...for you TYPE it quite well!(In case you've forgotten)
sO yOu AdMiT yOu DoN't BeLiEvE iN FrEeDoM oF rElIgIon.
135
posted on
06/14/2011 3:28:26 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Graybeard58
Catholic parochial school, Dominican nuns, Jesuit high school.
Could you please translate your sentence fragments into complete, intelligible English language sentences? How did you get ANY sense out of what was typed?
136
posted on
06/14/2011 3:31:15 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Elsie
Could you please translate your sentence fragments into complete, intelligible English language sentences? How did you get ANY sense out of what was typed? You'd have to ask the O.P., I just quoted him.......verbatim.
To: Elsie
You DONB'T?? What kind of psychopath word is that?
I can just see your eyes bugging out and spittle coming out of the side of your mouth as you pound the keyboard.
138
posted on
06/14/2011 5:47:10 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Are you trying to make it personal?
139
posted on
06/14/2011 5:56:42 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: MHGinTN
Mr. Elsie personally attacks Mormons.
You have no problem with that?
I believe in freedom of religion. Mr. Elsie believes in cut-and-pasting hateful anti-Mormon screeds.
Do you believe Mormons have a right to be Mormons if they want to be?
Mr. Elsie doesn't.
140
posted on
06/14/2011 6:18:25 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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