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Originally Posted by Archaea
I disagree. The priesthood ban affected numerically large numbers of persons. The gay issue affects a numerically small number, but even so leadership should have learned about the negative impact the priesthood ban had.
The US black population represents about 16% of the overall population. The gay population represents about 1.7%. The suicide issue is over-stated for PR and emotional effect (any suicide is bad but the raw numbers are small). So this has one tenth the affect, but nonetheless the bureaucratic leadership has no institutional memory of past mistakes.
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Most people in the world -- 99.999% --don't place any value on LDS priesthood or temple marriage. They don't give a crap about it or understand it. But most people can relate to the pain that bigotry against gays causes.
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