Keith Burns: 'The method for constructing an illusion of unchangeability begins when leaders declare a specific practice or teaching to be divinely inspired doctrine.'
The method for constructing an illusion of unchangeability begins when leaders declare a specific practice or teaching to be divinely inspired doctrine. Next, the church begins to face increasing public scrutiny and pressure, which eventually causes them to alter the practice or teaching. Following the change, church leaders attempt to whitewash and regulate the narrative such that the original practice or teaching in question was never doctrine at all.
After decades of civil lawsuits, intense public scrutiny, and rapidly growing membership in parts of the world with large Black populations, Spencer W. Kimball removed the ban in 1978. Although LDS leaders have never formally apologized, an official“the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects unrighteous actions in a premortal life.
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