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Unexplaining the Mormon Priesthood Ban on Blacks


Unexplaining the Mormon Priesthood Ban on Blacks

A fairly standard explanation as to why those of African heritage were prohibited from holding any priesthood office in the church.

What was the Latter-day Saint Black priesthood ban? Ep. 149

From the mid-1800s until 1978, Black men were not permitted priesthood ordination within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Abraham 1:26 and the Priesthood Ban - Mormonism Research Ministry

McKay (and most Mormons prior to 1978 when the ban was lifted) felt that Abraham 1:26 was a key verse when it comes to denying the priesthood to members of ...

The LDS Church and the Race Issue: A Study in Misplaced ...

Meanwhile, the nation as a whole had become permeated with so-called Jim Crow laws restricting all kinds of privileges for blacks. In that environment, the ...

Black people and temple and priesthood policies in the Church of ...

From 1852 to 1978, temple and priesthood policies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) prohibited both Black women and men from ...

Repudiated ideas about race - Fair Latter Day Saints

"Race and the Priesthood," Gospel Topics on LDS.org: Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor ...

What the New Statement on Blacks and the Priesthood Means to Me

You've heard about it by now, I'm sure—the LDS Church's new explanation on the previous ban that existed for African members of the church ...

Brigham Young may have started the priesthood ban on blacks, but ...

Recent research into the history of the LDS priesthood/temple ban on blacks — which ended June 8, 1978 — puts the prohibition's origin ...

Mormon church explains defunct ban on blacks in priesthood | Reuters

Thirty-five years after lifting a ban on blacks entering the priesthood, the Mormon church has offered an explanation for a practice that ...

The Real Story of the Priesthood-Temple Ban - Terryl Givens with ...

This became a factor in Brigham Young's 1852 decision to ban Black people from the priesthood and temple. They also explore some of the explanations that ...

God's Directive or Political Adjustment? Change Made to ...

For a concise look at the ban on blacks holding the authoritative priesthood, see Bill McKeever's article “Unexplaining the Mormon Priesthood ...

Why Did the Church Deny the Priesthood to Black People until 1978?

In the 1950s, David O. McKay, renews again his desire to revoke the priesthood ban. He now has a strong ally: Hugh B. Brown. It seems McKay and ...

1968-1970: The Civil Rights Movement Comes to BYU

Finally what we're suggesting is that the mindset that led to the ban on blacks in the first place, and the continuation of that policy into the ...

Race and the Priesthood

In 1852, President Brigham Young publicly announced that men of black African descent could no longer be ordained to the priesthood, though thereafter blacks ...

Mormon church explains past ban on black priests | AP News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After Mormon church leaders lifted the ban on blacks in the priesthood in 1978, church leaders offered little official ...