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bcspace wrote:Has Obama been asked why he accepts the first black President accolade without correcting people in that he has a white mother?
One drop of Cain's blood is enough to qualify as black under Mormon doctrine.
Still would have been denied the priesthood pre-ban.
bcspace wrote:Has Obama been asked why he accepts the first black President accolade without correcting people in that he has a white mother?
bcspace wrote:One drop of Cain's blood is enough to qualify as black under Mormon doctrine.
Doesn't seem to be the case.
Mark E. Peterson, LDS Apostle:
President Woodruff added, 'The Lord said, 'I will not kill Cain, but I will put a mark upon him, and that mark will be seen upon every face of every Negro, upon the face of the earth. And it is the decree of God that [the] mark should remain upon the seed of Cain, until the seed of Able shall be redeemed, and Cain shall not receive the Priesthood until the time of that redemption. Any man having one drop of the blood of Cain in him cannot receive the Priesthood'
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If I were to marry a Negro woman and have children by her, my children would be cursed as to the Priesthood. Do I want my children cursed as to the Priesthood? If there is one drop of negro blood in my children, as I have read to you, they receive the curse. . . . There are 50 million Negroes in the United States. If they were to achieve complete absorption with the white race, think what that would do. With 50 million Negroes inter-married with us, where would the priesthood be? Who could hold it, in all America? Think what that would do to the work of the Church! . . . Now we are generous with the Negro.
We are willing that the Negro have the highest kind of education. I would be willing to let every Negro drive a Cadillac if they could afford it. I would be willing that that they have all the advantages as they can get out of life in the world. But let them enjoy these among themselves. I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change it?" (ibid.; emphasis added)
(Race Problems-- As They Affect the Church, address given by Mark E. Peterson at BYU; emphasis added)
Mark E. Peterson, LDS Apostle:
bcspace wrote:Mark E. Peterson, LDS Apostle:
Non doctrinal venue/publication.
