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SeattleUte · 07-10-2008, 05:40 AM

Until the 1960's, some AMA Chapters, mostly in the South, excluded blacks and/or limited their leadership opportunities (no, it's not true the whole world was racist until 1978). Tomorrow the AMA will issue a formal apology, over forty years after denouncing these practices.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/heal...yt&oref=slogin

The AMA will apologize even though many chapters were always exemplary on race issues. The AMA felt it needed to apologize to try to purge its racist past.

If the AMA felt it needed to apologize, why not the LDS Church? What's worse, the LDS Church won't even denounce the teachings that led to the priesthood ban. Most Mormons still believe them.

I guess the AMA is a greater moral authority than the LDS Church. Do we need any more proof of this?

07-10-2008, 05:40 AM	#1
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	AMA a positive model and example for LDS Church Until the 1960's, some AMA Chapters, mostly in the South, excluded blacks and/or limited their leadership opportunities (no, it's not true the whole world was racist until 1978). Tomorrow the AMA will issue a formal apology, over forty years after denouncing these practices. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/heal...yt&oref=slogin The AMA will apologize even though many chapters were always exemplary on race issues. The AMA felt it needed to apologize to try to purge its racist past. If the AMA felt it needed to apologize, why not the LDS Church? What's worse, the LDS Church won't even denounce the teachings that led to the priesthood ban. Most Mormons still believe them. I guess the AMA is a greater moral authority than the LDS Church. Do we need any more proof of this? __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster