Social pressure and the priesthood ban

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Social pressure and the lifting of the Mormon priesthood ban

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• Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
• Question: Did President Jimmy Carter threaten the Church's tax-exempt status because of their policy on blacks and the priesthood?
• Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter"

Social pressure and the lifting of the Mormon priesthood ban

Jump to details:

• Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
• Question: Did President Jimmy Carter threaten the Church's tax-exempt status because of their policy on blacks and the priesthood?
• Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter"

Social pressure and the lifting of the Mormon priesthood ban

Jump to details:

• Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
• Question: Did President Jimmy Carter threaten the Church's tax-exempt status because of their policy on blacks and the priesthood?
• Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter"

Social pressure and the lifting of the Mormon priesthood ban

Jump to details:

• Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
• Question: Did President Jimmy Carter threaten the Church's tax-exempt status because of their policy on blacks and the priesthood?
• Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter"

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Learn more about priesthood: racial ban: removal

Online	"Race and the Priesthood," Gospel Topics Essay, Gospel Library Edward L. Kimball, "Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood," BYU Studies 47, no. 2 (Spring 2008) “The Priesthood Organization,” episode 5 of The Priesthood Restored: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
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Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources

Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 11. ( Index of claims )

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