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| | <h1><b>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Race</b></h1> |
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| | {{Summary1}} The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a complex history with race. Click below to find faithful answers to the questions that have arisen. |
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| <onlyinclude> | | ''Blacks'' |
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| | * [[The Historical Race Restrictions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] |
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| | ''Indigenous Americans'' |
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| | *[[Indian Student Placement Services program|The Indian Student Placement Services program]] |
| |summary=Members of African descent were restricted from holding the LDS Church's lay priesthood until 1978. Understanding the priesthood ban is difficult, because the historical record is not entirely clear about the ban's institution. There is no contemporary, first-person account of the ban's implementation. Critics with an agenda, as well as sincere seekers with a laudable abhorrence of racism have used this fact to portray the former (or present) Church and its members as racist. Critics argue that God would not allow His church to ever deny blessings or privileges based on race.
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| |link=Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Double standard
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| |subject=Do critics apply a double standard?
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| |summary=Some point to a statement by Joseph Fielding Smith the October 1979 LOOK Magazine as representative of the Church's racism.
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| |summary=Brigham Young made a number of statements related to race which are quite offensive by 21st Century standards. These articles examine some of these statements.
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| |summary=Brigham Young said, "If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot."
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| |link=Mormonism and racial issues/Mark E. Peterson claims that Blacks become servants in heaven
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| |summary=Elder Mark E. Peterson said, " If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. He will get a place in the celestial glory."
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| |link=Mormonism and racial issues/Mark E. Peterson claims that Blacks become servants in heaven/Maher claims that blacks go to heaven as slaves
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| |subject=Maher claims that blacks go to heaven as slaves
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| |summary=Bill Maher said, "...[I]n the [19]50s, the Mormons preached that the only way a black man could get into heaven was as a slave." It is unknown exactly what Maher was using as the source of such a comment, as it has never been a doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ that blacks would enter heaven only as slaves. It is possible, however, that Maher misread and was referring to an address given by Elder Mark E. Petersen at Brigham Young University on 27 August 1954.
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| |summary=Why did past prophets make racist statements? God had already revealed to Peter that he should not call anything "common" that God had cleansed (Acts 10:9-16), yet some modern-day prophets thought that blacks were inferior to whites; why is that?
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