Timestamps:
00:26 – Overview.
01:16 – The 9th Article of Faith explains that the restoration is ongoing.
04:09 – President Woodruff issued Official Declaration 1 in 1890. This Manifesto led to the end of the practice of plural marriage.
09:05 – Elder Bruce C. Hafen invites us to examine ambiguity in the church with open eyes and hearts.
17:06 – The Church today disavows all theories church leaders and members advanced to explain the priesthood and temple restrictions.
20:32 – During an era of great racial division in the United States, the Saints were persecuted for their anti-slavery stance.
25:08 – Joseph Smith ordained Walker Lewis and Elijah Abel to the priesthood. Later, in 1852, President Brigham Young officially announced that black members would no longer be given the priesthood. The power to decide is given to the President of the church in D&C 107.78-80.
36:08 – The 2013 edition of the scriptures adds an insightful paragraph to Official Declaration 2. Church records offer no clear insights into the origins of the priesthood restriction.
43:10 – Three slaves came into the Salt Lake Valley in the first pioneer company. Brigham Young did not segregate congregations or deny membership to African Americans.
53:00 – Brigham Young felt the priesthood restriction would be temporary and that it would be removed at a future time.
54:53 – In 1978 President Spencer W. Kimball received a revelation extending priesthood and temple blessings to all worthy male members of the church.
57:11 – The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, gives accounts of African Americans during the great migration in American history. The Clark family experienced tragic persecution in 1951.
1:02:10 – The Church today unequivocally condemns all racism, past and present, in any form. The love of others should be what characterizes the Latter-day Saints.
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