“...in the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how”
J. Reuben Clark Jr., in Conference Report, Apr. 1951, 154
Quoted in 2013 October General Conference, Look Ahead and Believe, Sat. Morning Session, Edward Dube
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/look-ahead-and-believe?lang=eng
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“I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.”
J. Reuben Clark, Church News, 23 April 1960, p. 3
J. Reuben Clark, Church News, 23 April 1960, p. 3
“From the days of the Prophet Joseph even until now, it has been the doctrine of the Church, never questioned by any of the Church leaders, that the Negroes are not entitled to the full blessings of the Gospel...
Furthermore, your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Negro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal-minded people from the ancient patriarchs till now. God’s rule for Israel, His Chosen People, has been endogamous”
“We are not unmindful of the fact that there is a growing tendency, particularly among some educators, as it manifests itself in this area, toward the breaking down of race barriers in the matter of intermarriage between whites and blacks, but it does not have the sanction of the Church and is contrary to Church doctrine.”
Letter from First Presidency to Dr Lowry Nelson
(George Albert Smith, J. Reuben Clark, David O. McKay)
Note: This quote is only included to illustrate assumptions around the ban.
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