You may already know that the LDS Church has been updating the official church website with expanded information and clarification about topics that have caused some confusion for some members, such as multiple accounts of the First Vision, the process of translating the Book of Mormon, and the former ban on Priesthood ordination for members of African descent (rescinded in 1978).
On the issue of race and priesthood, the church clarified that the “justifications for this restriction echoed the widespread ideas about racial inferiority that had been used to argue for the legalization of black ‘servitude’” and that today “the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects actions in a premortal life; that mixed-race marriages are a sin; or that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone else.“. Continue reading
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