“In all humility I must say that God has not inspired me to feel good about the Church’s practices regarding Negroes. In fact, I have come to feel very strongly that the practices are not right and that they are a powerful hindrance to the accepting of the gospel by the Negro people.

“As a result of my belief, when my wife and I went to San Francisco Ward’s bishop to renew our temple recommends, he told us that anyone who could not accept the Church’s stand on Negroes as a divine doctrine was not supporting the General Authorities and could not go to the temple. Later, in an interview with the stake president we were told the same thing: if you express doubts about the divinity of this ‘doctrine’ you cannot go to the temple.”

^{Grant Syphers, Jr., Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Salt Lake City, UT: Stanford University, Winter 1967 – Letters to the Editors), 6.}