mormons only play act at being happy familys. (laughter)

There is so much vey wrong with LDS. I was fooled for a while,then my 2nd husband showed me the lies behind their teachings. I began my own research and was shocked and very disapointed that I had been led so far astray. I lost my family because of my faith in LDS. I feel shame that I was once a part of the lies.

Dont tell me the devil took my faith! Too much power is given to the devil in LDS teachings.

I no longer believe there is a devil.

My heart breaks every time I think of what LDS had me do.

http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_blacksandthepriesthood.html

Joseph Smith stated the following:
“For instance, the descendants of Cain cannot cast off their skin of blackness, at once, and immediately, although every soul of them should repent, obey the Gospel, and do right from this day forward. . . . Cain and his posterity must wear the mark, which God put upon them; and his white friends may wash the race of Cain with fuller’s soap every day, they cannot wash away God’s mark; The Lamanites, through transgression, became a loathsome, ignorant and filthy people, and were cursed with a skin of darkness … yet, they have the promise, if they will believe, and work righteousness, that not many generations shall pass away before they shall become a white and delightsome people; but it will take some time to accomplish this at best”
Source: The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, vol. 14, p. 418

http://www.edelman.com/ This is the PR firm mormon church used to find out if the time was right for blaks to get the priest hood. It was not a revaltion from their god.

Beware LDS all you good folks, it help me make such a terrible mess of my life and my family.

I was also mormon-born, mormon-raised, and now an atheist.

It’s really informing to read this, I had noticed little bits with the Nephite and Lamanite skin-colour curses, but didn’t think about it enough until now, basically.

I thought the skin curse stuff was just Jospeh Smith’s way of making Mormonism make more sense by making all the white people that should be around, assuming anything was any bit true, killed by all the “cursed” Lamanites.

But I’d say your argument makes a lot more sense, without a doubt.

And thanks for the read, it distracted me from my bad mood rather well.

I, too, have written about Romney’s race problem, and will continue to do so. Thanks for your perspective as a former Mormon. Originally, I thought I was a sole voice speaking out about what I felt was a critical issue against Romney, but your piece and hundreds if not thousands of others have reported the same concerns about Romney and Mormon church doctrine.

That’s exactly the kind of racist bullshit I’m talking about. you refer to the civil rights movement as “the commandments of men” – as though demands for racial equality and human dignity for people of color were simply a matter of “men” making demands for their own selfish reasons, and not a moral issue. Implicitly, you are stating that your god *does not* “command” men to treat people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds as equal. You are agreeing with the book of mormon which describes blackness as “loathsome” and a “curse”. You are, in short, a racist.

and that is why I am not and will never again be a mormon. I believe very strongly that if there is a god then that god does not and could not condone the kind of language which the book of mormon uses, and that therefore the book of mormon absolutely cannot be the word of god. From there it is obvious that the self-proclaimed “prophets” of the mormon church are nothing more or less then self-serving con-men who prostitute the sacred to further their own agendas.

and you, sir, are a racist, and a dupe.  Thanks for dropping by and helping to prove my point.

the short answer is they don’t. both of my parents think of themselves as very firmly anti-racist, they just avoid thinking about the parts of their religion that would bother them if they really looked at it. Really, it’s not unlike progressive catholics who just pretend that their church’s homophobic and sexist doctrines don’t exist or born again Christians who just avoid thinking about the fact that if they take their religion seriously then they’re condemning the vast majority of the worlds past present and future population to burn for eternity in hell.

Really, for most people of most religions i think the actual doctrine is of secondary importance. People join and stay loyal to churches because of the sense of community that churches provide in a fractured alienated society. That doesn’t mean we can ignore the doctrine though.

I am glad, however, to report that as of now my younger sister has also left the mormon church and both my brothers seem well on their way as well. So in my family at least the lie ends with my parents. This gives me hope.