Mittens Booed at NAACP Convention: GOP Puppetician Fails to Explain why his Church Never Apologized for Excluding Blacks
Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 04:03AM
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From [HERE] Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney drew loud boos Wednesday when he pledged to repeal President Barack Obama's health law in a speech to the country's largest civil rights organization. The unfriendly reception continued when Mr. Romney told the crowd, "If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him." He would have spoken more directly for his racist party if he had simply said "hi n*****, please don't vote." 

Perhaps Mittens could have explained why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has neither formally apologized for its priesthood ban of Blacks nor publicly repudiated many of the theories [HERE] used to justify it for more than 125 years. Until 1978, Blacks were banned from a position open to nearly all Mormon males and the gateway to sacramental and leadership roles. The church had also barred black men and women from temple ceremonies that promised access in the afterlife to the highest heaven. Mormons believed that blacks were the cursed descendants of Cain, the biblical murderer. After a "divine revelation" sandwich in 1978 the First President of the Mormons declared that God had changed his mind about Blacks [MORE] and [MORE]. Although the LDS claims to now be inclusive, it remains overwhelmingly white. A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that blacks comprise just 1 percent of the nearly 6 million Mormons in the U.S.

The following are highlights from the Mormon doctrine known as the Curse of Cain Doctrine. Because of this doctrine, all black Mormons, and anyone with "one drop of Negro blood" was banned from the Mormon Temple and the Mormon priesthood.

"He keeps talking about 'Obama-this, Obama-that.' We know who Obama is. Tell me what you're going to do," said Jan Johnson, an NAACP member from North Carolina. "We know there's a health-care problem in this country. Tell me what you're going to do about it."

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