I read this, and thought how can a Religion be based on hatred and abhorrent thoughts, not love? - Mister Sister
Brigham Young was a prophet of the early Mormon Church and the direct successor to Joseph Smith following Smith’s martyrdom. As devout adherents to the teachings of Brigham Young, Fundamentalist Mormons believe the following regarding people of African descent : 1) they are not worthy of ordination into the Mormon fundamentalist priesthood, 2) nor may people of African extraction participate in the Endowment Ceremony, 3) nor may they have a marriage (called a “sealing”) celebrated in a fundamentalist Mormon church. Additionally African Americans may not participate in church “ordinances,” so they cannot be baptized, nor may they receive communion in a Mormon fundamentalist church. All of the preceding rituals are necessary to achieve the highest degree of “exaltation” in the afterlife, called “entering into the fullness of glory in the Celestial Kingdom.” Even one drop of African blood disqualifies someone from ever being a member of a Mormon fundamentalist group. These prohibitions against church membership for dark skinned individuals were imposed because Brigham Young taught that people with black skin were the descendants of Cain:
“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind …. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the ‘servant of servants’; and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree.” Mormon Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, page 290. (1859)
In 1852, while addressing the Utah Territorial legislature, Mormon Prophet Brigham Young stated, "Any man having one drop of the seed of Cain (African blood) ... in him cannot hold the Priesthood and if no other Prophet ever spoke it before I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ I know it is true and others know it.”
In 1978, the mainstream LDS church removed the ban which prohibited people of African descent from entering the priesthood, participating in ordinances, or receiving their “endowment.” Mormon fundamentalist groups adamantly refuse to change their position on this issue. The position of the fundamentalists regarding African Americans is an example of how the fundamentalist practice of the Mormon faith is actually more reflective of the original teachings of the Mormon prophets than the current teachings of the mainstream LDS church.
One wonders why the press has not questioned the Browns as to why they are members of a group which advocates discrimination. What do you think?
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EXCELLENT POST written by: PRETTY IN PINK!!!!
THANK YOU so much for educating us and helping us come to intelligent decisions!!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO MORE from YOU!
