“With the concurrence of President McKay, a young man of known Negro ancestry was ordained to the priesthood after receiving a patriarchal blessing which did not assign him to a ‘cursed’ lineage. In another case, President McKay authorized two children with Negro ancestry to be sealed in the temple to the white couple who had adopted them.”

^{Lester E. Bush, Jr., Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought – Spring 1973, “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview” – page 45.}