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Originally Posted by Tex
Mormon/Missouri relations don't reflect in the least modern black/white relations. The comparison is ludicrous.
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Why is the comparison ludicrous? If anything, Mormons deserve less of an apology today than blacks do from government bodies. Mormons were driven out of their homes and killed. Blacks were taken from their homes, shipped to a foreign land, enslaved, beaten, killed, raped, and legislatively treated as property.
Mormons today have no problems living in Illinois. Blacks today are still persecuted and discriminated against.
If anything, the comparison is "ludicrous" because it shows just how inconsequential Mormon suffering was to black suffering in comparison.
And yet, how did Mormon leaders react to the apology? With approval and thankfulness. Here is what President Hinckley said in conference in 2004:
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We are pleased to note that on April 1 of this year, the Illinois House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution of regret for the forced expulsion of our people from Nauvoo in 1846.
This magnanimous gesture may be coupled with action taken by then Governor Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, who in 1976 revoked the cruel and unconstitutional extermination order issued against our people by Governor Lilburn W. Boggs in 1838."
"These and other developments
represent a most significant change of attitude toward the Latter-day Saints."
If an apology meant that much to Mormons, what could it mean to blacks today?