The LDS church's most recent stance on Blacks and Priesthood

[Sparko]

I bet they said the same thing about polygamy. The LDS church is notorious for giving in to peer pressure from society and then making up some excuse as to why it was God's will in the first place.

[Trout]

I can't wait till the LDS church says Gay Marriage is OK and what "explanation" they come up for that one.

I had that very conversation with an LDS friend of mine. He didn't seem to think there was much chance of it happening. But he wouldn't be that upset/surprised if it did.

[Trout]

Cain slew his brother . . . and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. . . . How long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them? That curse will remain upon them, and they never can hold the Priesthood or share in it until all the other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood and the keys thereof.

It reads like a beatitude.

[Sparko]

That would be awesome except for the fact that the prophets claimed that black skin was a curse from God.

That was back when they were all white and delightsome.

[Cow Poke]

That would be awesome except for the fact that the prophets claimed that black skin was a curse from God.

Yeah, I know ... us Southern Baptists didn't claim a theological reason* -- we were just mean ugly bigots. We were just wrong.



*there were, of course, some congregations who DID preach "the mark" theology, but it was not our official position, and did not come from "leadership".

[Trout]

It's so much better just to say "yeah, we were a bunch of racist bigots, but we realize we were wrong, and need to make things right".

That would be awesome except for the fact that the prophets claimed that black skin was a curse from God.

[Cow Poke]

It's so much better just to say "yeah, we were a bunch of racist bigots, but we realize we were wrong, and need to make things right".

[Sparko]

I can't wait till the LDS church says Gay Marriage is OK and what "explanation" they come up for that one.

[Cow Poke]

Historical Revisionism at its finest!

[Sparko]

Right! Who makes up this stuff?

Obviously the LDS leaders do, and they justify it by claiming that they have the true religion and that God speaks directly to their prophet. Unless they change their mind later, like about blacks, or polygamy, etc. Then they claim that the prophet was just speaking as a man and not for God after all.

Like the church lady says: How conveeeeenient.

You would expect that if the Prophet really did have a connection with God, that God would bother to correct him when he mispoke as a "man", wouldn't you?

[Trout]

so much for having a direct hotline to God through their Prophet.

Right! Who makes up this stuff?

[Sparko]

According to a recent LDS publication, there was never any reason that blacks were denied the priesthood other than the racist holdings of the founding leaders of the church.



I am continually amazed at the ever-changing histrionics asserted by the LDS church.

so much for having a direct hotline to God through their Prophet.

[Trout]

According to a recent LDS publication, there was never any reason that blacks were denied the priesthood other than the racist holdings of the founding leaders of the church.

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.

I am continually amazed at the ever-changing histrionics asserted by the LDS church.