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July 10, 2007 02:00 AM UTC
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I was talking to an LDS friend of mine who said that Mitt’s fundraising was suffering because he was lossing support within the church by saying that the policies denying blacks equality were always wrong.
LDS doctrine (as I understand it) is that the church’s policies are always correct and that policies denying Blacks equality were correct until revelation indicated that God had changed his mind.
My friend’s father is a bishop and in essence said that Mitt’s position was heretical.
Could you correct my understanding of LDS doctrine? What is your opinion on Mitt’s weakening fundraising.
If I may, I would like to start off with a correction. My understanding of the church’s policy on blacks was in regards to holding the Priesthood, not disallowing church membership. If that is what you are referring to as equality, then yes, that was the case.
You are correct in your summary that church doctrine is doctrine until changed by God, as we do believe in continual revelation along the lines of what Biblical prophets received. Similar revelations ended other practices such as polygamy.
Also, it should be noted that Mitt served as a Bishop during his tenure running the Olympics in Utah.
I haven’t seen Mitt’s comments regarding the blacks and the priesthood doctrine, but if he believes that, so be it. I don’t think that is hurting his fundraising among Mormons. As I have talked to people at church about it, their reservations regarding his candidacy revolve more around his so-called flip-flops on issues like gay marriage and abortion.
One thing about the LDS culture that I don’t like is that people come up with their own ideas and then present them as doctrine (like people thinking that the “Word of Wisdom” bans things like white bread). If Mitt was representing his personal views about Church doctrine as Church doctrine, that could hurt him among other Mormons. But I don’t see how a personal view like that would cause him any sort of wide-spread backlash among other LDS people
Hope it helped