Without assessing fault or blame

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Tex

It seems the best example anyone has been able to offer is the PC message it sends, which was exactly what I said is the core why you folks want it. While the church's image is obviously important to the brethren, I'm not so sure these PC concerns rank real high on the list.

If they did, I think a man like Hinckley would've addressed them.

Was Christ playing with the little children a cheap PR trick?

Church leadership being able to reach out to all church members, make all of them feel comfortable and loved, and understand all of their needs is very important.

But in addition to that, diversity in leadership brings many more benefits, as far as the actual management and strategy. You want examples so you can shoot them down. If I could give you examples as a white boy from Utah, then surely the GA's would be aware of them. So I can't. But what I do know is that everytime I've been part of a strategic team, diversity has increased the awareness of needs from different groups. And when diversity is not present, the result suffers--even when the group members make conscious effort to think outside our culture/geography .