bm2617@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Greetings and salutations.
>
> Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was an opponent of slavery,
> and tolerant enough in spite of some of the revealed history he wrote
> to have ordained an African-American in the priesthood in 1836. His
> successor, Brigham Young, was rather less tolerant, and under his rule
> Utah would be a sup****ter of the southern position on slavery.
>
> Now assuming that Brigham, before Smith's death, had been sufficiently
> converted to Smith's more tolerant early viewpoint that after the move
> to the Great Salt Lake, the Mormon church continued to take a pro-
> abolitionist line. Also, the absolute ban on black priests that OTL
> lasted untill the 1970's never becomes official - there aren't many
> black 19th century Mormons, but there are some.
I would suggest having someone else take up the reins who's more
tolerant than Young -- more probable than Young's mind being changed.
--
Dan Goodman
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