KevinSim wrote:So is there some compelling reason to believe that God will always approve of how society has evolved? That God has some kind of an obligation to always be politically correct, as defined by societal norms?
Society at large? No. But the organization he is supposedly closely guiding, with his chosen mouthpiece at its head? I think that's not too much to expect.
I personally am leaning toward the opinion that God never desired for blacks to be denied the priesthood, but that God still thought Brigham Young was the best man to preserve the continuity of the restored gospel, even though he knew that Young had some prejudices he would incorrectly conclude had been revealed to him by God. But I haven't entirely ruled out the possibility that God actually had a reason for denying the blacks the priesthood, a reason that went away in 1978. I don't know how one goes about concluding with certainty that no such reason could have existed.
You have every right to come up with that explanation, although to me it looks a lot like an apologetic, an attempt to rationalize acceptance of the policy.
I have no idea if you lived through that era, so I don't know if you can relate to the conflicts the reversal caused. As for me, after initially welcoming the belated change in policy, I was left with a growing distrust in the idea that our leaders were actually being guided by revelation. Four years (and one slowly crumbling "testimony") later, I was completely out of the church.
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