LDS Church condemns past racism 'inside and outside the church'

This is a timely and well written article describing race in the LDS church. For me there are lingering concerns. One, I was taught many times over many years in many wards growing up, that the reason blacks could not hold the priesthood was More..

This is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to show the LDS church's doctrine that fair skinned peoples are God's people and that dark skinned folks are evil.

See 2 Nephi 5, Book of Moses 7, Abraham 1, to name just a few.

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I don't even have the right words to express how sad this article makes me .. not that the church is condemning racism, but for the justifications given by the church in this article. Based on what I have just read, I suppose that I should accept More..