Elle Stewart
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

Yeah, this ‘feel good’ look at ‘progressive mormonism’ all but turns to shit when you learn that Joseph Smith sealed Jane Manning to himself as an eternal SLAVE not wife. Racism, at the heart, is LDS doctrine. And you can read this directly for yourselves, from the words of the LDS church ‘prophets, seers and revelators’ in letters they dictated and signed to a Dr Lowry Nelson who was petitioning the LDS leaders at the time to allow black Brazilians to be allowed to attend church. https://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/lowry-nelson-saga-cuba-report/ Racism is still rife in the LDS church, although tamed publicly to the kind of benevolent prejudice they also unfortunately equate to women and gay people. All you have to do is look in currently published and utilised youth teaching materials which tell young people to marry their own “racial background.” Link is from the wayback machine — seems the LDS church are doing their best to publicly keep their racist opinions off the web. You can still look in the physical manual and see it there. https://web.archive.org/web/20160429003054/https://www.lds.org/manual/aaronic-priesthood-manual-3/lesson-31-choosing-an-eternal-companion?lang=eng&_r=1

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