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Stephen marsh posted this at w&t today Quote:“We do wish that there would be no racial prejudice. … Racial prejudice is of the devil. … There is no place for it in the gospel of Jesus Christ” — President Spencer W. Kimball, 1982.
“I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ. Nor can he consider himself to be in harmony with the teachings of the Church of Christ.” — President Gordon B. Hinckley, 2006.
A reminder, for today.
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https://wheatandtares.org/2017/08/13/learning-from-prophets-spencer-w-kimball-and-gordon-b-hinkley/ I can’t remember where I got this, but I liked it: As a boy, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley once made a disparaging remark about a black family in the presence of his mother. It was a mistake, he said, that he never repeated. “She gave us to understand, in no uncertain terms, that among the peoples of the Earth there is neither inferiority nor superiority, that we are all sons and daughters of God, and that we have an obligation to respect and help one another,” Hinckley told the 49th annual NAACP Western Region I Leadership Conference on Friday in Salt Lake City. “I have never forgotten that simple lesson. I have carried it all my life, and across the world,” he said.
From the gospel topics essay: Quote: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 unrighteous 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.
And the Hinckley quote above comes from an April 2006 GC address (
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/the-need-for-greater-kindness?lang=eng ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/the-need-for-greater-kindness?lang=eng Mark 7:27, Jesus Christ calls a woman a dog because of her race. With the exception of the past 40 years (maybe?), race has been an incredibly important factor in religion. I am so grateful this has changed; many wonder fruits have come, when racial differences have been swept aside. But this hasn’t always been the case…
Margaret Young said something interesting. Quote:I hear that the dark underbelly of American racism revealed itself, and that some people unmasked themselves in Virginia. This can be a blessing. The less hidden the sickness is, the easier it is to lance and treat.
“President Donald Trump called hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan “repugnant” on Monday and repudiated their racist ideology, two days after similar groups tried to hold a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that led to violence.” Better late than never I guess, but better never late. See
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/days-after-charlottesville-violence-trump-calls-hate-groups-repugnant-n792491 Quote:“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in a brief statement from the White House.
I wrote the following post on my personal blog back in 2009 and updated it after the Race and the Priesthood essay was released. It is a pretty thorough listing of statements up to that time: “Repudiating Racist Justifications Once and For All”( http://thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com/2009/04/repudiating-racist-justifications-once.html
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