Posted on 12/21/2007 4:20:24 AM PST by RCFlyer
...Mormonism was a defiantly apartheid faith that denied blacks full participation based on doctrinal beliefs that whites are "pure" and "delightsome," while black-skinned people are "unrighteous," "despised" and "loathsome" descendants of the biblical Cain, who was cursed for killing Abel.
The priesthood proscription, which operated under a "one-drop rule," wasn't in place simply to keep blacks out of leadership posts. Ultimately, the ban was a manifestation of a central belief that blacks are unfit to be full members of the church on Earth, or to exist alongside whites in heaven...
Mormon leaders were applauded for finally ending the prohibition. But according to Mr. Mauss, the church has never repudiated the teachings that supported the policy. In 2004, he wrote, "ironically, the doctrinal folklore that many of us thought had been discredited, or at least made moot, through the 1978 revelation, continued to appear . . . [in church literature] written well after 1978 and continues to be taught by well-meaning teachers and leaders in the church to this very day." And "Mormon America," which was just re-released, notes plainly that "Mormon teaching against race-mixing remains in force."
Throughout his current campaign for the Republican nomination, Mr. Romney has declined to distance himself from the repugnant racial teachings of his church...
In his ballyhooed speech earlier this month, Mr. Romney said he wouldn't renounce any of Mormonism's precepts. And for all his claims to the contrary, Mr. Romney has, in fact, been willing to distance himself from past teachings of the church--just not those having to do with its treatment of black people...
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Having enough money for it would be one.
After spending several days defending the bookcase in the Huck's campaign video that's a real surprise to me.
Republicans should not get sidetracked on this religion thing. Simply grant the other guy the right to belong to a cult of his own choice or making.
Focus any concern about religion on the Democrats ~ you've got Hitlery, Obamasama and the Breck Girl to attack. They are weak on all of it ~
What's the issue? If you want more blacks, invite them.
We are speaking historically.
I suppose you don’t understand that Utah has one of the best employment stats in the country. That out-of-staters are flocking in from EVERYWHERE. That we have the greatest snow on earth, and wonderful areas of temperate cliamate as well. Utah is experiencing MORE growth than almost any other State.
Blacks anyone? The consensus in Utah seems to be...Not in MY back yard. Please.
I forgot....We DO have Gladys Knight (not the Pips) and Thurl Bailey. We just love our black people. What a bunch of PR hooey.
If I were Gladys Knight I would be humiliated at being such a tool.
I do not support Mitt Romney because he lacks a seasoned track record as a conservative and he still does not get conservative philosophy in some respects, e.g., his belief that human activity cause global warming. However, everything in the man's career points to his belief in racial equality and his support of civil rights for all Americans. I am more than tired of ad hominem attacks and smear tactics in this campaign. The fact is that Republicans viciously attack their opponents, yet cower like whipped puppies when the MSM and the liberal Democrats attack.
As I noted already you’all prefer Latinos ~ they are more willing to accept below-market wages (in cash) and take orders ~
Exactlyyyyy....... Obviously Blacks have not exactly been welcomed in Utah during it’s 160 year history, and were never “invited.”
The last 30 years since the LDS Church ended its discriminatory practices, we have seen a few more. We are probably all the way up to 5% of the population.
“Southern” Baptist .. you don’t know much about the history of Southern Baptist do you?
We don’t bring them. Every Western State has a mexican problem.
BTW I am married to an hispanic man. His ancestors have lived in the United States area for longer than ANY of yours.
You sound like a racist.
The Southern Baptists, a denomination that split with its Baptist cousins to the north over the right of ministers to own slaves (and presently the nation’s largest Protestant Christian denomination) “apologized” in June 1995 for their pro-slavery, pro-racist, pro-segregationist past. Measured from the date Southern Baptists began waving their Christian banner for slavery (1845) to the date they apologized (1995), http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/religion/southern_baptist_history.html
You know how is it. You have something to say but you don't quite know how to say it so you streeeeetch it. Okay, I admit it, I was a single professional in California for 11 years and I frequented bars 4 nights a week. Phew....now I feel better!
You lose!
Should have put the /sarc note in there.
BTW, whenever a Utah employer hires on an illegal alien he or she "invites" more such folks.
Your politicians ended up on the wrong side in the Amnesty Debate this Summer too.
How does anything you have said refute the facts presented in this article?
Really...the Great Lakes area. How long did the LDS Church stay there. Three/four years until they amasses hundreds of followers. Then the LDS Church moved to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois for the next 17 years where tens of thousands joined.....all white.
Somehow they neglected to pick up any people of color during the time they were converting hundreds of thousands of white folks from Scandinavia, England, Scotland.....oh yeah.... I have a g-g-grandfather that converted to the LDS Chuch in South Africa.....but none of the “darkies” were allowed.
Come one now. Revisionist history is not going to help your case.
I was firmly against the reelection of Chris Cannon because of the illigal immigration issue. I even argued with Jim Rob about it.
Illegal immigration is a United States problem. Believe me, your STATE does it too, and so does every other one including Mitt’s Massachusetts. But they do allow African Americans to actually live there don’t they?
I was trying to point out that the Mormon religion was not the only religion to have a serperatist attitude, and I think I proved that the Southern Baptist did too, which is the religion that Mike Huckabee belongs too. And the only reason that Mormonism is being questioned is because it is the faith of Mitt Romney, but why isn't the racism history within the Southern Baptist Convention addressed? Because it is all POLITICS.
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