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dimbear

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1. The upcoming election isn't just a chance to thank those neatly groomed young men
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:32 PM
Oct 2012

for getting you out of the shower. It's a chance to repudiate a long nasty racial prejudice which was just very recently, in a historical context, relaxed for what appear to be very ulterior motives.

Mormons will explain that the church needed to expand its membership to improve its football chances, but the truth is more that they needed to expand their membership to maintain their elegibility to obtain federal funds.

The new view of Mormon officialdom is in some ways more offensive than the old. The new claim is that blacks have evolved sufficiently in the intervening hundred or so years to have earned the privilege of the priesthood. Not, and I emphasize, not that the church was ever wrong.

People of all colors need to know the truth about the Mormon church.

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