Have a look at this article on Mormon times website where it says `Mormon church helps former NFL player sort out spiritual puzzle` .

It pictures a new black convert embracing a wife who is white.
As far as I know,Brigham Young taught that if any person marries and mixes his seed with a negro,they should be castrated or lose all priesthood blessings and not be able to marry in a Mormon temple.Does this black guy know anything about past mormon teachings on blacks?

http://www.mormontimes.com/news?s_cid=nav&utm_source=nav

It is a daughter of the guy who helped convert him. He was made to feel like part of their family and the girl was getting married.

Boy, what a prize for that missionary family - a BLACK convert!! They'll have plenty of stories to brag about in church now.
When I was a missionary, baptizing a black person was akin to winning a championship. Hard to do, but it made you a rock star missionary with bragging rights if you did.

I read the whole article. The African American man/former NFL player is not marrying (or "embracing") the Caucasian young woman in the picture. She is about to be married to someone ELSE. The black man is simply a friend of her father's.

It's a touching story, but I feel so very sorry for the man - the church has apparently adopted him as their PR poster boy for diversity. He seems like a genuinely kind and humble seeker of "truth" who got love-bombed to death and subsequently duped by the church.

I think his cancer and other multiple health problems made him vulnerable to conversion. I'm glad that the church is there as a strong support system for him right now . . . although I'll hate to see this gentle giant's heart break the first time he runs across Brigham Young's racist rants from the Journal of Discourses.

;o)

What's more interesting about the article is this section :

"... Lester offered to arrange for someone from the local Mormon congregation to drop by and check on him. Ever independent, Miles politely declined. His new friend did it ANYWAY.

A local church member visited. Miles said he was just fine. When the gentleman left his contact information, Miles said thanks and dropped it in the trash after he left. The man continued to check on him ANYWAY.

Then two missionaries knocked on his door. "OK guys, you have five minutes," Miles told them.

"But five minutes turned into TWO hours," he said."

(Capitalization added)


So, three times this guy said NO, and three times he was ignored until he finally relented.

It is exactly these types of faith promoting stories that will keep giving church people the idea that no doesn't really mean no.

are encouraged in the morg.

It's hypocritical considering the morg taught for years that blacks were less worthy in the pre-existence, that they could never hold the priesthood, and that the righteous are "white and delightsome."

Yes. It is hypocritical because the Aaronic Priesthood manuals currently in use contain the quote by SWK that says you should marry only within your race.

If they aren't going to come out and say that BY and SWK were bigots and their statements can be ignored, then they are bigots themselves.

The bullshit flowing out of SLC is killing me...