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Originally Posted by etdpratt

1. Ok first, blacks were allowed in the mormon church before 1978. Check your facts. There were positions within the church which they couldn't hold.

Yeah those positions that is according to the Church, necessary to reach any form of salvation, such as Priesthoods, sealings, and temple endowments. Blacks where treated as second class citizens within the organization of the Mormon Church, because the churches leaders believed that they came from the lineage of Cain, who was cursed with ‘black skin’ for the murder of his brother. What’s worse is that those beliefs are still taught and followed today. Consider what your perception of a person if you where taught that the reason their skin is the color it is, was due to the fact that they are cursed.

3. I know for a fact that the mormon church has never said that Gay people are born straight. I challenge you to support your wild claims.

They may have never explicitly stated it in a public form, but from my personal experience, having been raised in the Mormon Church, this is what most members believe and is what is taught to children.