Similar to getting a mail in degree from Brigham Young Smith University.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/03 ... t-russell/
He won’t even be there in person!Russell M. Nelson is about to join an elite group of global leaders working for civil rights.
On April 13, the 98-year-old president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will receive the Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize from Morehouse College, a historically Black school in Atlanta.
The honor is awarded “to a person who promotes peace and positive social transformation through nonviolent means,” the school said in its announcement. “The individuals use their global leadership to affirm peace, justice, diversity and pluralism.”
The board selected Nelson “for his global efforts in ‘abandoning attitudes and actions of prejudice against any group of God’s children’ through nonviolent ways.”
It then quoted the Latter-day Saint leader’s June 2020 Facebook post, after the George Floyd killing by police.
“Let us be clear,” Nelson said in the post. “We are brothers and sisters, each of us the child of a loving Father in Heaven. His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, invites all to come unto him — ‘black and white, bond and free, male and female,’ (2 Nephi 26:33 in the Book of Mormon). It behooves each of us to do whatever we can in our spheres of influence to preserve the dignity and respect every son and daughter of God deserves.”
Nelson, who will not be there in person, will accept the award in a special broadcast, hosted by the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on the Morehouse campus.
Maybe because he’s worried it’s a trap?
Reminder from Russell M Nelson's autobiography published in 1979:
In 1971, when the search was under way for a new president for Brigham Young University, President Romney interviewed me extensively, particularly on the question of the Negro and the Priesthood. I gave him a simple answer: I had no problem with that doctrine, because I knew that in the Lord’s own due time a revelation would come which would enable the Blacks to receive the Priesthood, and until that time came, they were not to receive it. It was just that simple. I suspect some of the other men who were being interviewed may have had more to say on that subject.