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non sequitur · 10-15-2005, 02:58 AM

I remember reading an interview with Sterling McMurrin where he recounts a conversation he had with David O. MacKay in the 1950's. During the conversation President MacKay said that Blacks not being able to hold the priesthood was not a doctrine of the Church and that it had never been a doctrine of the Church. He said that it was a "practice" in the Church and that it was a practice that would be changed. This was some 25 years before the revelation. Pretty interesting interview.

10-15-2005, 02:58 AM	#5
non sequitur Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,964	I remember an interview with Sterling McMurrin. . . I remember reading an interview with Sterling McMurrin where he recounts a conversation he had with David O. MacKay in the 1950's. During the conversation President MacKay said that Blacks not being able to hold the priesthood was not a doctrine of the Church and that it had never been a doctrine of the Church. He said that it was a "practice" in the Church and that it was a practice that would be changed. This was some 25 years before the revelation. Pretty interesting interview.