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Date: July 22, 2019 04:25PM
Jana Riess: Will the Latter-day Saint leader apologize to NAACP for church’s past racism?
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/07/19/jana-riess-will-latter/Uh, no.
But he got the President of the NAACP to pretend like he did, so mission accomplished.
"Then the NAACP leader alluded to the church’s former ban on black boys and men in its all-male priesthood and women and girls barred from temple rituals, which was removed in 1978.
Nelson did not apologize for the church’s previous racial policy, but Brown seemed to suggest the faith already had.
The Latter-day Saints “had the courage to say, ‘We have unfortunately been complicit in the evil of racism in this nation,’” Brown said. ‘But unlike some persons in this country, we are humble enough to say we are sorry, we are going to change our ways, we are going to do a new thing, sing a new song, talk a new talk, walk a new walk.’”
For his part, Nelson did not mention the now-removed ban, but he spoke glowingly of the growing fellowship with the NAACP, which was clearly spelled out in an opinion column in Sunday’s Detroit News."
God the MORmON PR machine is amazing.
How do they get people to just gloss over the fact that no demographic voted to hand off the nuclear football to a racist sexual predator more than MORmONs?