Did the Mormons Bridge Al Sharpton to keep him quiet????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Guest Darrick]

The Rev. Al Sharpton is the founder and director of the National

Action Network. He is a black minister who is frequently on

television

and on radio denouncing what he perceives is white racism and bigotry

against his people. Back in early 2007, Sharpton had made a few

negative remarks about Mormons and Mormonism, equating Mormonism was

racism. In May, 2007, Sharpton was invited by Mormon Church leaders

to

Salt Lake City; where he was taken on a tour of Temple Square, and he

had dinner with Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard.

 

Rumors are circulating throughout Utah and elsewhere that during

dinner with Al Sharpton in Salt Lake City, on May 21, 2007, Mormon

apostle M. Russell Ballard promised Sharpton that if he would cease

talking about "the Mormons" publicly then he (Ballard) had "a friend"

who would make a "very substantial donation" to Sharpton's National

Action Network. This "rumor" was started by a long-time LDS Church

Security employee. The security officer refuses to be identified, at

this time.

 

 

Before the dinner Sharpton had made several critical anti-Mormon

comments about Mormonism in relationship to Mitt Romney. After the

dinner, Sharpton apologized, and has made no public anti-Mormon

remarks since.

 

 

Insiders in Salt Lake City know that whenever the Church faces an

public relations nightmare, they often turn to several very wealthy

Mormons who will "donate" great amounts of money to help the Church.

One such case was in 1985, when the Church wanted to purchase old

embarassing documents from Mark Hofmann, a Mormon documents dealer.

The Church wanted to get control of "The McLellin Collection"; a

collection of diaries, letters, and other old documents written by an

ex-Mormon apostle William McLellin. The Church wanted these things

"off the market" and out of the public eye, but the Church did not

want to outright "buy" the collection itself. So, Elder Dallin Oaks,

a

Mormon Apostle, asked a rich Mormon named David Sorenson to secretly

"buy" the collection for $185,000 and then secretly "donate" the

collection to the Church, so that, if asked, the Church could

"honestly" deny they had purchased it. All this is documented in

detail in The Mormon Murders by Neifeh and Smith (a book that can be

ordered from any bookstore and available in most public libraries in

the U.S. in the true crime section).

 

 

In 2003, a Ghananian journalist, Raymond Archer, was writing a series

of aritlces for The Ghananian Chronicle called "The Untold Story of

the Mormons"; suggesting the Mormon Church had a racist past, and

that

Mormons were bribing various Ghananian government officials to gain

influence in the country. After his second article was released, a

group of white American investors from Utah bought The Ghananian

Chronicle, and Archer was promply fired from the newspaper. No

fruther

anti-Mormon articles have been published by that paper.

 

 

The Mormon Church taught for 130 years the following:

 

 

Negroes are "cursed" inferior children of Cain.

 

 

Negroes are "the representatives of Satan" on Earth (direct comment

from Mormon Church president John Taylor)

 

 

The "Mark of Cain" is a black skin, flat nose, and kinky hair.

 

 

Negroes were "less valiant' in the War in Heaven, when all human

spirits fought Lucifer and his angels. Negroes were "lazy" in the

war,

and thus punished with a denial of Priesthood (Mormon Priesthood) in

this life.

 

 

Negroes were "banned" from the Mormon Priesthood and from entering

Mormon Temples from 1848 until 1978.

 

 

In 1978, the Mormon Church was in the process of building a Temple in

Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mormon Temples are not regular places of worship,

but houses were higher Mormon rituals take place, "Sealings" and the

"Endowment" ceremony. Negroes could be baptized, but were "banned"

from these Higher Ordinances. Even a white man or women with one

Negro

ancestor was considered a "Canaanite" and thus banned.

 

 

In preparation for the Temple in Sao Paulo, many white Brasilian

Mormons began to do their genealogy, in order to have their ancestors

baptized (baptism for the dead) in the new Temple, only to discover

most of them had at least one Negro ancestor.

 

 

Somewhere between 1975 and 1978, Mormon Church president Spencer W.

Kimball was told that 85% of white Brasilian Mormons had at least one

Negro ancestor, thus making them ineligiable for the Mormon

Priesthood

and worshipping in Mormon Temples. This became a crisis, since a

Mormon Temple was then already being built in Sao Paulo. Every male

Mormon was supposed to hold the Priesthood. To ban 85% of white

Brasilian Mormons from the Priesthood and Temple would made the Sao

Paulo Temple for the most part meaningless.

 

 

Kimball then had a "Revelation" telling him that the Curse of Cain

had

been removed. But he did not repudiate the "Curse of Cain

Doctrine" (i.e. Negroes are children of Cain/less valiant in the War

in Heaven). Since that time, June 1978, Black Mormons are the equals

of other races in the Mormon Church.

 

 

LDS Church Public Affairs spokesman Tom Owens denies the Church ever

taught that Negroes was "cursed in any way". He says that "some

members may have held this view, but it was never a doctrine of the

Church".

 

 

In fact, Mormon Church leaders called the Curse of Cain doctrine "a

doctrine of the Church" in several official First Presidency letters

(such as "The Statment of the First Presidency on the Negro Question"

first published in 1952), as well as in General Conference, an in

much

personal correspondance. Current Mormon Church leader, Gordon B.

Hinckley, was asked on an Australian TV program "COMPASS" in 1997 if

the Church "made a mistake" in denying blacks the priesthood and

temple for so long. Hinckley responded, "No, I don't think it was was

mistake. Various things happend at various times. That, they, there

were reasons for them." When asked what the reasons were, Hinckley

replied, "I don't know what the reasons were".

 

 

When asked about the Curse of Cain legacy, Mitt Romney has

consistently refused to comment on it.

 

 

If the rumors are true, Rev. Sharpton may have thought that the money

for his National Action Network was more important than anything

negative he had to say about the Mormons.

 

 

You can read more about the Curse of Cain doctrine and history by

going to Google and typing in:

 

 

"Curse of Cain" Mormon

 

 

"Mormon racism"

[Guest Greg Brown]

<obsessive BS snipped>

 

 

It's time for you to take your meds!

[Guest Miss Eppelsnepp]

One question mark is sufficient.

[Guest Greg Brown]

On Jul 16, 4:48 pm, "Miss Eppelsnepp" <h...@clleg.com> wrote:

> One question mark is sufficient.

 

 

The original poster is obviously a disturbed person who needs help!

[Guest]

In article <1184627348.061736.218300@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,

Darrick <darrick_evenson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Rev. Al Sharpton is the founder and director of the National

> Action Network. He is a black minister who is frequently on

> television

> and on radio denouncing what he perceives is white racism and bigotry

> against his people. Back in early 2007, Sharpton had made a few

> negative remarks about Mormons and Mormonism, equating Mormonism was

> racism. In May, 2007, Sharpton was invited by Mormon Church leaders

> to

> Salt Lake City; where he was taken on a tour of Temple Square, and he

> had dinner with Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard.

>

> Rumors are circulating throughout Utah and elsewhere that during

> dinner with Al Sharpton in Salt Lake City, on May 21, 2007, Mormon

> apostle M. Russell Ballard promised Sharpton that if he would cease

> talking about "the Mormons" publicly then he (Ballard) had "a friend"

> who would make a "very substantial donation" to Sharpton's National

> Action Network. This "rumor" was started by a long-time LDS Church

> Security employee. The security officer refuses to be identified, at

> this time.

>

>

> Before the dinner Sharpton had made several critical anti-Mormon

> comments about Mormonism in relationship to Mitt Romney. After the

> dinner, Sharpton apologized, and has made no public anti-Mormon

> remarks since.

>

>

> Insiders in Salt Lake City know that whenever the Church faces an

> public relations nightmare, they often turn to several very wealthy

> Mormons who will "donate" great amounts of money to help the Church.

> One such case was in 1985, when the Church wanted to purchase old

> embarassing documents from Mark Hofmann, a Mormon documents dealer.

> The Church wanted to get control of "The McLellin Collection";

[Guest john p]

On Jul 16, 3:48 pm, "Miss Eppelsnepp" <h...@clleg.com> wrote:

> One question mark is sufficient.

 

 

Indeed

[Guest Stormin Mormon]

Once a question, always a question. But once a question mark is

enough.

 

--

 

Christopher A. Young

You can't shout down a troll.

You have to starve them.

..

 

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