by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“A 12-year-old boy scout has been denied a senior patrol leadership in his troop because he is black, Don L. Cope, black ombudsman for the state, said Wednesday…The ombudsman said Mormon ‘troop policy is that in order to become a patrol leader, he must be a deacon’s...
by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The revelation that the church is talking about with respect to the Negro and the priesthood should have been sought 50 years ago – not now when we are forced into looking for one. Even if a revelation should come now, we have compromised our position because...
by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There are Negroes born into families of wealth and refinement, others who are blessed with great talents, and there are those born into the lowest classes of society in Africa, in squalor and ignorance, living out their lives in a fashion akin to that of the animals....
by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Church is either true or it isn’t. [Regarding blacks/priesthood] If it changes its stand on the strength of the ‘great stream of modern religious and social thought,’ it will be proven untrue … “If the Church is true it will hold to its beliefs in spite of...
by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“My plea, then to the civil rights organizations and to all critics of the Mormon Church is: get off our backs!… “[A]gitation over the ‘Negro issue’ by non-Mormon groups, or even by Mormon liberals, is likely simply to increase the resistance to change.”...
by Dan Wees | Apr 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Since they believe in continuous revelation, Mormons have a mechanism that enables them to reverse previous positions without repudiating the past …That the church will invoke such a mechanism to resolve the racial issue is not too unlikely … this approach has a...
