Church of the Latter Day Saints explains cause of long ban on blacks in priesthood

[james_davis_nicoll]

They were being racist. Accordingly:

Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects actions in a premortal life; that mixed-race marriages are a sin; or that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone else. Church leaders today unequivocally condemn all racism, past and present, in any form.

Which takes them a long way from the days when this letter was sent to George Romney.

Comments

[avitzur.livejournal.com]

Now I want to start a betting pool for what year the Church will similarly accept gay people and disavow their prior discrimination.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Given that it took until 1978 to admit that black people were people...probably sometime in the 2070s when no one remembers that same-sex marriage was once controversial and the first gay president has completed their first term.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

... first out gay president?

--Dave