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Look at the Firs Quorum, and note that only five latin members and one Japanese, break up the logjam of white european origins on the leading councils, of the Twelve and the First Quorum.
http://deseretnews.com/confer/leaders/d.htm The Second Quorum has only one Korean member. http://deseretnews.com/confer/leaders/e.htm Man, are we whiter than ghosts. |
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Given the fact, that the majority is no longer in the US, and we are browning, the leading faces of the Church are still lilly white. I imagine it will change, but when we look back twenty years from now, we won't recognize how white we were. It will happen ever so gradually.
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The mean General authority has also been a member of the church for several decades. The average attendee at BYU is a multi-generational member of the church (I'd say, as a very poor guess, 2 or 3 generations, on average). MoTab is comprised of people who live in Utah and are so familiar with the Choir that they are willing to give up a significant amount of time to participate in a volunteer organization.
Moral of the story? These three faces of the church represent the demographics of the church as they stood decades ago. General practice (and, in the case of General Authorities, necessity) dictates that the use of these groups as a litmus test for the rest of the church will always be many years behind the times. |
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Low GA turnover + many years of church experience prior to GA calling = Very large demographic lag between church membership and GAs. This will solve itself over the next twenty to thirty years, at the most. |
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I believe diversity in any group is a good thing. It offers perspectives and viewpoints that serve to improve the actions and decisions of the whole. I don't think that race should be a qualification for a calling in the church. They should look for the best men for the job, not the best white, black, brown, or phosphorescent men. Reason dictates that the best men will usually have been members of the church for some time, which usually dictates that they will be white and have lived in Utah. It's a natural coincidence, not a deliberate byproduct of racist tendencies, and I don't think a lack of diversity at the top is such a huge problem as to require that the church fix a system that isn't broken. |
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