From: “Rowland C. Croucher” <>

Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion

Subject: Mormons and Blacks…

Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:53:44 -1000

Mormons haven’t visited our group/s much… Any out there wish to

comment on this?
[From today's Infobeat News]:
Mormons may disavow black inferiority view – report
The Mormon church is considering a proposal to repudiate historic church

doctrines that were used to bolster claims that black people were

inferior, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The move comes 20 years

after the church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints, dropped its ban against African Americans in the

priesthood. The paper quoted sources close to the secret deliberations

as saying they hoped a statement would be issued next month, the 20th

anniversary of the church’s decision to admit “all worthy men” to the

priesthood regardless of their race or color.
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From: Jan Groenveld <>

Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion

Subject: Re: Mormons and Blacks…

Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:05:00 +1000

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Rowland C. Croucher wrote:
> Mormons haven’t visited our group/s much… Any out there wish to

> comment on this?

>

> [From today's Infobeat News]:

>

> Mormons may disavow black inferiority view – report

>

> The Mormon church is considering a proposal to repudiate historic church

> doctrines that were used to bolster claims that black people were

> inferior, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The move comes 20 years

> after the church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

> Saints, dropped its ban against African Americans in the

> priesthood. The paper quoted sources close to the secret deliberations

> as saying they hoped a statement would be issued next month, the 20th

> anniversary of the church’s decision to admit “all worthy men” to the

> priesthood regardless of their race or color.

> 
This was supposedly a revelation from God to their prophets …. It is in

their scripture (Book of Abraham) also.  If they do this they put

themselves in a bind ….. either the prophets back then were wrong and

therefore were false prophets or their current prophets are wrong and

therefore false prophets ….. they can’t have it both ways ….
God has never been politically expedient like this ….
^^THE MOST DANGEROUS LIE IS THAT WHICH MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES THE TRUTH^^

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