“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 its members. If it is false, more power to the easy-way-out philosophers who claim to know the ‘imperious truths of the contemporary world.’”

^{Paul C. Richards, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Salt Lake City, UT: Publishers Press, Autumn 1967), 6.}