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Posted: Friday May 11th, 2007 13:55 |
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What is interesting about this article is that which the Mormans believe. If Sharpton has done his homework he could put Rommey in a very awkward position. The Mormons believe (and still do) that Black people had a curse on them and therefore could not officiate in the church's rituals. No too long ago, they got a vision that said God had taken away the curse and Black people could now officiate.
But the real issue here is not the new rule, but whether they believe that Black people were cursed. Sharpton should put it to him very hard on this, and make Romney answer the question.
Olushola
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Sharpton called on Romney to address whether the Mormon Church ever supported segregation. "He needs to clarify the truth or non-truth of what I was presented," Sharpton said.
Richard N. Ostling, co-author of "Mormon America," said the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the church is formally known, never officially sanctioned segregation. But until 1978, he said, the church barred any male with "African blood" from being a "priest," a designation given to males over the age of 12.
"That pertains to not only holding church office but performing very routine functions and has afterlife implications," Ostling said. "That teaching goes back at least to 1849."
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