OTOH, they show the world who they really are . . . which is good. Imagine anybody saying that [fill in the name of almost any other group] aren't really people and then skating!
Its nice to let them out themselves but, as you say, it reflects poorly on FR.
Why don't you and Dan go to that thread & start defending that murderer because he's Mormon:
When will you liberals_in_waiting finally figger out that your little label-tossing tactics are not working??
OTOH, they show the world who they really are . . . which is good. Imagine anybody saying that [fill in the name of almost any other group] aren't really people and then skating!
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Speaking of "racism"....that's a subject that mormonism defenders really should avoid.....
In a June 1978 letter, the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaimed that “all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color.” Men of African descent could now hold the priesthood....
The revelation may have lifted the ban, but it neither repudiated it nor apologized for it. “It doesn’t make a particle of difference,” proclaimed the Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie a few months later, “what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978.”
McConkie meant such words to encourage Mormons to embrace the new revelation, and he may have solemnly believed that it made the history of the priesthood ban irrelevant. But to many others around the country, statements of former church leaders about “the Negro matter” do, in fact, matter a great deal.
The church would benefit itself and its members — and one member in particular, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee — by formally repudiating the priesthood ban and the racist theories that accompanied it.
-SNIP- The priesthood ban had sweeping ecclesiastical consequences for black Mormons. They could not participate in the sacred ordinances, like the endowment ceremony (which prepares one for the afterlife) and sealings (which formally bind a family together), rites that Smith and Young taught were necessary to obtain celestial glory.
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Most Protestant denominations, however, gradually apologized for their past racism.
HUH?