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Guide Home > Race & Cultural Issues
Additional TopicsThe following are additional topic areas related to Race & Cultural Issues. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth. FAIR ResourcesThese links are either to Web pages hosted on the FAIR Website, or to FAIR Papers. FAIR Papers are short articles about specific topics or questions, written by members of FAIR. These articles can be downloaded and read in PDF format and are intended to be distributed by e-mail or print for the general use of our patrons. (To read FAIR Papers you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.) Click on a title below to visit a FAIR Web page or to read the latest version of a FAIR Paper. "Racist statements by Church leaders," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki artilce responds to the following questions: Why did past prophets make racist statements? God had already revealed to Peter that he should not call anything that the Lord had made unclean (Acts 10:9–16), yet our modern-day prophets thought that blacks were inferior to whites; why is that? Michael Parker, "Did Brigham Young Say that He Would Kill an Adulterous Wife with a Javelin?," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, November 2004) Anti-Mormon critics frequently comb through 19th century writings and sermons looking for comments that can be used to disparage Latter-day Saint leaders. Their goal is to persuade members, investigators, and those outside the Church that those leaders were undeserving of any claim to divine inspiration and that consequently the Church itself must be false. Such snippets can only achieve the intended shock value when pulled from their literary and cultural environments. One frequently-used comment was made by Brigham Young in 1865. In an address delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, President Young spoke of being able to put a javelin through an adulterous wife's heart. Standing alone, such as statement is shocking to readers today. What eager critics fail to do is to explain then context in which this was given, particularly the Biblical allusion to Numbers 25:6-15. In his paper, Parker discusses this and other statements involving "blood atonement" and shows how modern anti-Mormons misrepresent the statements of early Church leaders. Juliann Reynolds, "Lamanites, the Seed of Cain, and Polygamy," Mormonism 201 (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, July 2002) Mormonism 101 attempts to portray Latter-day Saints and LDS theology as racist. Reynolds notes the double-standards employed by these Evangelical writers and explains that nearly all nineteenth-century Americans had racist attitudes. John A. Tvedtnes, "The Charge of Racism in the Book of Mormon," (2003 FAIR Conference presentation.) Is the Book of Mormon racist? If so, why? Margaret Blair Young, "Black Latter-day Saints: A Faith-FULL History," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, 2003 FAIR Conference) In her 2003 FAIR Conference presentation, Margaret Blair Young shares stories of faithful black Latter-day Saints from the early days of the Church. Encyclopedia of MormonismThe resources listed below are articles available in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Rita de Cassia Flores and Enoc Q. Flores, "Race, Racism," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1191-1192 Ensign ArticlesThese articles cited below provide information on the topic of this page. The Ensign is one of the official publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When you click on one of the article links below, you are whisked to the article found in the archives of the Church's Web site. Alexander B. Morrison, "No More Strangers," Ensign, September 2000, 16. Racism is an offense against God and a tool in the devil's hands. Other ResourcesThe resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Sterling Adams, "Reviews of two books on early religious justification for slavery.," BYU Studies (2005) Sterling Adams reviews two books on the justification of slavery among religions from the Abrahamic tradition. The reviews include Stephen R. Haynes, "Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery," and David Goldenberg's "The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."
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