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It's so difficult for me to hear Cliven evoking Delbert Stapley. (Cliven's remarks are clearly in the same vein.) All of this makes me feel like Mormonism has let him down.
I'm not saying that Mormonism deserves the blame. I'm saying that Mormonism hasn't helped when it could have.
As I see it, Mormonism is too busy waging its war on pornography and gays to help people like Cliven know what racism really is.
If Brother Bundy didn't learn racism in the Church, he certainly didn't UNLEARN it, especially considering the traditional Mormon thought process: "I don't hate black people. I'm not racist. I just think God didn't want them to have the priesthood for some unknown reason."
Imagine if we had a church that was good enough to apologize for its own racist past rather than spending so much of its general conference time on nonsense.
Will Cliven be disfellowshipped? Excommunicated?
I'm not saying that Mormonism deserves the blame. I'm saying that Mormonism hasn't helped when it could have.
As I see it, Mormonism is too busy waging its war on pornography and gays to help people like Cliven know what racism really is.
If Brother Bundy didn't learn racism in the Church, he certainly didn't UNLEARN it, especially considering the traditional Mormon thought process: "I don't hate black people. I'm not racist. I just think God didn't want them to have the priesthood for some unknown reason."
Imagine if we had a church that was good enough to apologize for its own racist past rather than spending so much of its general conference time on nonsense.
Will Cliven be disfellowshipped? Excommunicated?