Jeffrey R. Holland, PBS Interview with Helen Whitney, Mar 2006; “All I can say is, however well-intentioned the explanations were [regarding origins of priesthood ban], I think almost all of them were inadequate and/or wrong […] It would have been advantageous to say nothing, to say we just don’t know, and, [as] with many religious matters, whatever was being done was done on the basis of faith at that time […] We simply don’t know why that practice, that policy, that doctrine was in place.” — Jeffrey R. Holland
Acts 10:34-35; “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”
Oh brother…
How do you rationalize the racist views of Mormonism in light of what Peter said in Acts?
Last week we looked at the lies of a Mormon official making excuses for the LDS Church’s racist problem and in this reference we see that 18 years later they’re still playing the same song.
This is another one of those Mormon doctrines that stops me in my tracks. I don’t know this man, nor have I ever met him. I’m not familiar with his personal background, but I sure am with mine and I know for an absolute fact what he said here is a lie.
If I could figure out why they had this policy, certainly one of the leaders who runs the show in Salt Lake could. Perhaps they’re trying to say they don’t know why Smith was a racist…
While race riots were taking place in the sixties I was taught the black race is an inferior people group. The first eighteen years of my life was spent being indoctrinated with LDS scriptures (Moses 7:22) teaching us that blacks have no place amongst the saved.
When these men say they don’t know where or why this originated they’re outright lying. They know it came from none other than Joseph Smith.
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