CardiacCoug |
09-09-2008 10:25 PM |
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Originally Posted by Flystripper
(Post 263640)
How many manuals do you think the church ships annually? Do you really think the church is so careless as to have what you call an "oversight" when it comes to perceived racism? The manuals are public and are the official curriculum of the church. These views are publicly reiterated every year during lesson 31.
I don't know when the curricula was updated but I am sure that the brethren are very aware of what is being taught to the youth of the church. Yes it does bother me. I don't sit around and dwell on it, but it is indicative of a problem, especially when I doubt the brethren would plead ignorant on the quote and the use of it in the Church's curriculum.
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I agree -- it's not an accident that it's still in there.
My father is pretty progressive in his attitudes for a 60-year old LDS man, but I'm pretty sure he would not disagree with the statement that GENERALLY you should marry within your race. I think the GAs feel similarly.
They obviously need to take the word race completely out of the discussion and change it to similar cultural background and values. I don't think it's ridiculous to say it may be easier to successfully marry someone from a similar cultural background. Although come to think of it my wife's upbringing as a gentile in Connecticut was not very similar to mine and we are extremely compatible.
There is a very strictly orthodox LDS guy in my ward who is married to a woman from the Phillipines. I wonder what he thinks about being told to marry within one's race.
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