The Church NEVER taught that blacks are cursed!!!

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Ask LDS Public Affairs.
Ask missionaries at "chat"on http://www.Mormons.com
Ask any Seminary teacher in Salt Lake Valley (with a "few" exceptions).

Ask: "Did the Church EVER teach that blacks are cursed or the children of Cain?"

They will say: "No, the Church NEVER taught that blacks are cursed in any way. The Church NEVER taught that blacks are the children of Cain. Sure, a few Members may have held that view as a personal belief, but it was NEVER a doctrine of the Church!"

But.....it was!

In their weekly Temple meeting, on Thursday night, Church leaders have decided that "the Curse of Cain" was a "mistake". But, they can't SAY that pubicly, because they will "lose authority" with many Members, who will naturally ask: "What MISTAKES are the Brethren making NOW?" So, instead of apologizing for the Curse of Cain Doctrine, the Brethren have decided the following 4-Point course of action:

1) Don't speak about it to the press or media
2) Have LDS Public Affairs DENY the Church ever taught it
3) Tell bishops to WARN those who talk about in Church, pro or con, to NOT speak about it, pro or con, at Church or face Church discipline.
4) Let the Curse of Cain Doctrine slowly "fade away" and be forgotten.

FACTS:

Yes, the Church leaders taught The Curse of Cain Doctrine for 130 years, from the top down! AT NO TIME was it presented as "personal opinion" of Church leaders. It was always referred to by them as "a doctrine of the Church".

A Statement from the First Presidency:

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August 17, 1949


The attitude of the Church with reference to Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is founded the doctrine of the Church from the days of its organization, to the effect that Negroes may become members of the Church but that they are not entitled to the priesthood at the present time. The prophets of the Lord have made several statements as to the operation of the principle. President Brigham Young said: “Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a skin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their fathers rejecting the power of the holy priesthood, and the law of God. They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the holy priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we now are entitled to.”

President Wilford Woodruff made the following statement: “The day will come when all that race will be redeemed and possess all the blessings which we now have.”

The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the premortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality and that while the details of this principle have not been made known, the mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintain their first estate; and that the worth of the privilege is so great that spirits are willing to come to earth and take on bodies no matter what the handicap may be as to the kind of bodies they are to secure; and that among the handicaps, failure of the right to enjoy in mortality the blessings of the priesthood is a handicap which spirits are willing to assume in order that they might come to earth. Under this principle there is no injustice whatsoever involved in this deprivation as to the holding of the priesthood by the Negroes.

The First Presidency

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The Mormon Church and the Curse of Cain Cover-up:
http://markofcain.angelfire.com/COVERUP.html


How some Mormons have threatened me with DEATH because I have
publicly protested the Curse of Cain Cover-up:
http://markofcain.angelfire.com/DEATH.html