Not a joke!

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_moksha
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Re: Not a joke!

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MrFffish wrote:Interesting, do you have a specific citation for this?


If I remember right it is from the latest Young Men's Priesthood manual.
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Re: Not a joke!

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MrFffish wrote:
Sadly the MDL didn't publish this quote...
We recommend that people marry those who are of the same racial background generally...from the current teaching manual for the Aaronic Youth.


Interesting, do you have a specific citation for this?



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Re: Not a joke!

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Welp that is an all out awful thing to teach in my opinion...what ever keeps people in their place I guess. Funny how the followup discussion point conveniently misses the race issues. "Why is it important for a couple to have a similar economic, educational, and cultural background?"
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Re: Not a joke!

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MrFffish wrote:Welp that is an all out awful thing to teach in my opinion...what ever keeps people in their place I guess. Funny how the followup discussion point conveniently misses the race issues. "Why is it important for a couple to have a similar economic, educational, and cultural background?"


Yeah, it's disturbing.

And it helps us to understand that when God changed his mind about black people in 1978, he didn't change it all the way.
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