how does gladys knight reconcile the religion she chose, with its history of racism?

The manner in which the church leadership fawns over celebrities (especially athletes, entertainers, politicians, and the extremely wealthy) is enough to allow many to sell out and to disregard previously held values.



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Have you ever seen her sing - and bury her test-o-money with her husband - in a MCB: Mormon 'church' building?

The wierdest and creepiest time (ask about it sometime) in a Mormon 'church'... besides Bednap's evil worshipping persona-spiritual side show, and of course, "CHURCH" itself.

TSCC caters to her and they perform and bury testimonkeys for them. It's a match made in heaven, and its struck.

Is there a chance that she's no longer active mormon? I haven't heard about her doing those choir/testimony things in ages.

Curious... though she'd prolly' not say a thing. She'd just get busy traveling and such and essentially become N-active.

TSCC wouldn't say a thing either, except maybe Damn, she left [too], like many thinking people do, and took her "TITHING" with her.

MORMONISM Is No Place for anyone, especially a "LAMANight", or any Knight, for that matter.

The "tickets" - given free to Mormons (to hand out) told of the event and that it was at a Mormon LDS 'Church'.

Fine print: you cannot bring a phone or a camera and you can't take pictures, BUT, TMC can take pictures - and use your likeness (in media, advertising campaigns, propaganda, etc.) of you. Dress code. Etc.

I heard Mormons made one lady/ couple leave for a dress code violation ("immodesty"). Someone commented, Wow, Tina Turner got kicked out of a Gladys Knight concert.

Then her husband buried his testimony, and then she did, albeit briefly...

The show was good
But for Mormonism
And Mormons

And that's the fact that the PPIs were nothing **at all** like the PIPs.

What is the PPIs?

Is Pips slang for Pimps?

I knew I'd have to explain this! :-)

PPI stands for "personal priesthood interview," an invasive sitdown meeting that priesthood leaders conduct with their priesthood peons on an annual basis, I believe. (I'm actually not even sure the interviews are conducted anymore.)

And "Pips" were Gladys Knight's accompanying singers in her former musical group, "Gladys Knight and the Pips." Apparently, "Pips" comes from the nickname of one of Gladys' cousins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Knight_%26_the_Pips

I knew you'd have to explain that, too.
Gladys and mormonism is such a crazy story.

I bet church leadership was surprised at the free PR gift, and that someone black [or female] would want to join.

Don’t forget Eldridge Cleaver. He converted to Mormonism late in life too.

He didn't stay Mormon long, but the LDS church totally embraced him.

There is an interesting video of him giving a speech at the BYU floating around on the internet.

When I watched the speech, I thought "this can't be the same person who wrote Soul on Ice.

I think he had a LOT of help with that book.

Anyway, the LDS church totally embraced him until he got bored and left.

It was lost on the creator of that graphic just how culty it is.

While I don't know anything about the details of Gladys Knight's conversion to Mormonism, I do know that a lot of people in the entertainment industry joined outsider religious groups after becoming successful. John Travolta, for example, became a scientologist during the 1970s. I once read an interview with the late Donna Summer where she said that she became a born-again Christian as a way of forgiving herself for the kind of music she recorded (think "Love To Love You Baby," which KCPX didn't play when it was out, by the way) and some of the actions she took after she became famous.

I definitely think Donna Summer's explanation is part of the story. I also know that stars and entertainers have a lot of downtime (that is time when they are not actually working) that they spend trying to find ways to amuse themselves and to keep themselves from getting bored. Joining various outside religious organizations (who are glad for the money, if nothing else) seems to be one way of alleviating the boredom.