didn’t Mormons bar blacks as members until very recently?
didn’t Mormons bar blacks as members until very recently?
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They could be members but could not hold the LDS “priesthood” (which is required for salvation) until 1978.
1978 was when mormons allowed blacks to become priests. They could attend mormon churchs before. The importance of priesthood has to do with the mormon doctrine that man can become a god. However, the only way they can get there is to become a priest and be allowed into their temples to perform "sacred" (read secret) ceremonies and endowments. Before this, at best according to mormon teaching, the blacks would be servants of these white mormon gods.
However, the mormon scriptures they based this racist doctrine are still in print and not revoked -NOR has the Lds president offered an apology for the practice.