Reply #31: You cannot deny the historical implications of Beck's statement that Obama is a racist [View All]

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and hates white people coupled with the fact that Beck is a Mormon.

You know damned well and good what the historical stance of the Mormon Church was with regards to African Americans.

So long as Beck is publicly making such racially charged statements AND proclaiming his Mormon faith openly, it cannot help but reflect upon a church that has such a despicable history with regards to how it denigrated anybody of African American heritage until relatively recently in historical terms.

Edited to add quotes of Mormon Prophets:

JOSEPH SMITH
(First Prophet and President and Founder of the Mormon Church)

"Had I anything to do with the negro , I would confine them by strict law to their own species and put them on a national equalization.'' History of the Church, Volume 5, pages 218 - 219.

BRIGHAM YOUNG
(Second Prophet and President of the Mormon Church)

"I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the Children of men, that they may not call scripture!" Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, page 95.

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, sad, low in their habits, wild, ad seemingly without the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be and the Lord put a mark on him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then other curse is pronounced upon the same race - that they would be the "servant of servants;" and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree." Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, pages 290 291

"In our first settlement in Missouri, it was said by our enemies that we intended to tamper with the slaves, not that we had any idea of the kind, for such a thing never entered our minds. We knew that the children of Ham were to be the "servant of servants," and no power under heaven could hinder it, so long as the Lord would permit them to welter under the curse and those were known to be our religious views concerning them." Journal of Discourses, Volume 2, page 172.

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, page 110.

Those are only two of your prophet's words. There were many others in the same vein about the "seed of Cain". It wasn't until 1978 when your church attempted to erase 140 years of overt racism contained within church doctrine. Beck merely reflects the history of your church.