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 Posted: Sat 13:07, 31 Aug 2013 Post subject: and not an " |
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George Romney was the most powerful Mormon in American politics and was gearing up for a presidential run in 1968. The LDS hierarchy took note and worried about his positions on civil rights. Delbert L. Stapley,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a high-ranking member of the LDS (who was born the year the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was constitutional and died the year the LDS lifted its ban on African Americans in the priesthood),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wrote to Romney deeply troubled. "After listening to your talk on Civil Rights,http://www.tiluband.com, I am very much concerned. Several others have expressed the same concern to me." The letter was "personal" and not an "official Church position" but it still came on letterhead that read,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "The Council of the Twelve."Stapley directed Governor Romney to read Joseph Smith's position on "the Negro" and "abolition." Stapley commented that when he reflected on Smith's anti-black words,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he thought of "what happened to the three of our nation's presidents who were very active
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