“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.}