harmony wrote:My husband came home from work last week with the latest buzz on why Blacks were denied the priesthood for so long: it was society's fault. Society back then (1830's) wasn't ready to accept a church where people with black skin were allowed to join as equal members with those with white skin.
No word yet on why it took over 100 years after the Civil War for that to change, or why women are still denied the priesthood.
More on this as updates occur.
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That could've Never have been the main and/or the Principle reason. The Following is from one of the Web Site Pages of LDS Apologist, Jeff Lindsay:
Interestingly, the exclusion policy applied to ancestry, not to skin color. There were completely white-skinned Americans who had been serving in the priesthood who later found out that they were of partial African descent. These white Americans then had to step down from their priesthood offices. Likewise, natives of the Fiji Islands, who have a beautiful, deep black skin, are apparently not of African descent and were able to hold the priesthood prior to 1978. And Asians, native Americans, Indians, and many other peoples of color have always had access to the priesthood.
(Link: http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQRace.shtml)