Black LDS Official on Priesthood Ban

[Indy Coug]

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkr...5-d181b269d10c

HH: Lawrence, I want to take a call before we go much longer, because this is Mark in Los Angeles, who tells me he’s a black Mormon official. Is that correct, Mark?

Mark: That is correct, Hugh. Thank you for having me on.

HH: What do you want to say to Mr. O’Donnell?

Mark: Well, I want to tell him that the 9th Commandment still applies. You’re not supposed to bear false witness against people. Since you’re a Catholic, I’m going to basically briefly review the priesthood in Scripture. In ancient Israel, the priesthood was severely restricted not only to Israelis, the ancient Israelites, but it was restricted to male Levites. And frankly, it was restricted to the direct descendants of Aaron. So it was severely restricted in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, Christ specifically said that He did not come to preach to the Gentiles. Was He a racist? No. The Gospel was taken to the Gentiles after Peter’s vision in Acts, Chapter 10. And the first beneficiary of that revelation was Cornelius, the centurion.

HH: You’ve got to run it along here, Mark. Get to the point.

Mark: Okay, the point is that there is no record in the Scriptures of the priesthood being given to blacks in the Old or New Testaments. Blacks would not have been given the priesthood in the Old Testament. The revelation came in 1978. It was the happiest day of my life, because I was able to join the Church.

LO’D: (laughing) And you believe that?

Mark: And I think that for Larry to say that we’re racist…

LO’D: You believe that revelation happened in 1978?

Mark: …I’d like to know whether he thinks the ancient Israelites were racist, and whether New Testament Christians were racists.

LO’D: Yes, I do. Of course I do. Yeah, of course.

[MikeWaters]

If I hear this line of reasoning again, I'm going to puke.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

If I hear this line of reasoning again, I'm going to puke.

Kinda how I feel when folks claim God had nothing to do with it.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Tex

Kinda how I feel when folks claim God had nothing to do with it.

Yeah, another BY got it right and JS got it wrong person.

It's time for the church to jettison BY and get back to JS.

[Indy Coug]

So what about this harbinger of future racism?

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/13

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Yeah, another BY got it right and JS got it wrong person.

It's time for the church to jettison BY and get back to JS.

I guess God didn't kill BY fast enough. Good thing he learned from his mistake with HBL.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

I guess God didn't kill BY fast enough. Good thing he learned from his mistake with HBL.

When your day is 1,000 years along, getting sidetracked for a couple of seconds can really cost you big time. You get busy trying to work on setting events in motion to free the blacks from slavery and your prophet goes off and institutionalizes racism.

While the cat is away...

[MikeWaters]

I think Indy and Tex are proof that racism is alive and well in the church.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I think Indy and Tex are proof that racism is alive and well in the church.

I guess I'd better stop telling all the blacks and latinos I go to church with, home teach with and am home taught by that I love them.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I think Indy and Tex are proof that racism is alive and well in the church.

*Tex tosses chips in the pot.*

I'll see your racism, and raise you one didactic ignoramus.