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Article: Mormon church leaders say they plan no statement on blacks
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- May 19, 1998
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MIKE CARTER Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-19-1998
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ Mormon leaders deny a report that they plan to disavow a doctrine that denied blacks the priesthood because of a church belief that linked their skin color to a biblical curse.
The matter has not been discussed by church leaders, said the First Presidency, the final decision-making body of the 10 million-member church.
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are debating a proposal to repudiate some historic doctrines and statements linking skin color to the curse of Cain.
President Gordon Hinckley and his two counselors said in a ...