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291-293
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It was taught that the denial of priesthoods to blacks was due to some behavior in the pre-existence.
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- Alma 3:6
- Race Problems—As They Affect The Church, Address by Mark E. Petersen at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, delivered at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954"
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294
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Blacks were said to be the descendants of Cain.
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- The authors fail to note the the so-called "Curse of Ham" was a Protestant invention used to justify the practice of slavery.
- [[One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Double_standard_on_race|Protestant critics: double standard on race issues}}
- Origin of the ban
- "Curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"?
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- History of the Church 4:501
- Mormon Doctrine, 1958. p.102
- Journal of Discourses 7:290
- Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.477
- Journal of Discourses 22:304
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296
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Brigham Young said the the penalty for marrying a black person was "death." |
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- Journal of Discourses 10:110
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302
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Joseph Smith is said to have endorsed slavery. |
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- History of the Church 2:436-38
- History of the Church 3:29
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303
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Slavery was accepted in Utah. |
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- Millennial Star, 1851, p.63
- New York Herald, May 4, 1855, as cited in Dialogue, Spring 1973, p.56
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306
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Church leaders defended segregation.
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- Misrepresentation of source: The authors quote the first edition of Mormon Doctrine, while ignoring that many Church leaders were displeased with it, and that a second edition had been released eleven years before their book was published.
- Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
- Double standard: some Protestant denominations—such as the SBC—were formed specifically to support slavery.
- Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints: Prophetic fallibility?
- Repudiated ideas
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- Race Problems—As They Affect The Church, an address delivered by Apostle Mark E. Petersen at Brigham Young University, August 27, 1954
- Mormon Doctrine, 1958, pp.107-8
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312-314
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Brigham Young said that blacks would not received the priesthood until all of Adam's other children received it, otherwise the church would be destroyed. |
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- Journal of Discourses 7:290-91
- Journal of Discourses 2:143
- Journal of Discourses 11:272
- Brigham Young Addresses, Ms d 1234, Box 48, folder 3, dated February 5, 1852, located in the LDS church historical dept.)."
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322-323
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The revelation granting the priesthood to blacks was necessary after a temple was built in Brazil.
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- Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
- The authors again make a sweeping assertion with no evidence whatever.
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