Why would an entire group of people be punished because of Cain's murder?

Like, that doesn't make sense.

Did Brigham Young ever say this was a revelation?

The church disavows any of those theories.

The spirits of the children have been are pure and holy without transgression or any curse upon them.

Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young, or President George Cucan,

or whomever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation.

All are alike unto God, black and white, bond and free, male and female.

There's still work to do.

It's time to respect all of God's children.

Full stop. Hello, Scott. Hello, Casey. We're back.

We're back. And we are dealing with, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is maybe the most

complicated issue in the history of the church. It requires a lot of nuance, a lot of context,

a lot of understanding to get. And official

declaration too actually is an uplifting part of the story because this is when the policy

of priesthood and temple restriction for people of African ancestry ended. Yeah, I think it's

it's fair to say this is probably the most controversial of all church history issues.

I know there's a lot out there, Casey, but this one is very difficult because, well, because a lot of reasons, which we're going to explore.

We're going to explore in this episode some of the challenges with this, but you're right.

It ends really well.

A 1978 revelation,

extending the privileges of priesthood and temple to every member of the church based on

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