Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Devout Anti-Mormon here...
IMO, there's no church group in the USA that has a more hate-filled history than the Moroni-worshipers.
Just look at their historical treatment of blacks...their support of more hate-filled agenda doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
The LDS church has had issues with race in the past,
as has the entire US. But, those issues were resolved in the 70's.
Irrational hatred is irrational.
Ever so coincidentally, Kimball (or who ever was President at the time) "Had a Dream" that overturned those rules against Blacks...I say coincidentally because it was about the same time the NAACP sued over this bit:
"In 1974 the NAACP sued the LDS Church because it didn't allow black boy scouts in LDS Church-sponsored scouting troops to become patrol-leaders. They had always been allowed into Mormon scouting troops, but they couldn't become patrol-leaders." (actually, any non-Mormon was so discriminated against)
"Shortly before Boy Scout officials were to appear in Federal Court Friday morning on charges of discrimination, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a policy change which will allow black youths to be senior patrol leaders, a position formerly reserved for white LDS youths in troops sponsored by the church. An LDS Church spokesman said Friday under the "guidelines set forth in the statement, a young man other than president of the deacons quorum could (now) become the senior patrol leader if he is better qualified". - (Salt Lake Tribune, August 3, 1974).
Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball "had been subpoenaed to testify" in the suit (Ibid., Oct. 23), but on Nov. 7, 1974 the Tribune reported: "A suit claiming discrimination against blacks by the Boy Scouts of America was dismissed Wednesday in federal court...all parties to the suit..signed an agreement stating the alleged discrimination 'has been discontinued.'"
We lived in northern Utah in the early 80's and the Mormon's discrimination against "gentiles" was still very strong then.
I'd go apply for a job, things were good untill the fatal question," By the way, what Stake do you belong to?"
I'd tell them I didn't belong to the LDS church at all, and the conversation seemed to always go from, "Great, can you start on Monday?," to "Well, I'll keep your application on file. If anything should come up..."
I called the manager of one company on that. I asked him why I went from "Start Monday," to "If something comes up?"
He told me that as wrong as it may be, the company had a policy of taking care of "THEIR OWN" first...
How I wished I had a tape recorder that day...I might have owned a significant portion of that concrete company...
As anti-Mormon as I am, I will however admit freely that some of the best people I've ever met were "devout Mormons" who actually lived what they believed. NO hypocracy, NO "Jack Mormons," just good people who happened to be Mormon and lived according to their scriptures.
Most of the Mormons we knew personally were just "Jacks" and were "normal people" without the horns...