Revelation or Secret Meeting? How the Mormon Priesthood and Temple Bans Ended | Ep. 1954

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 216 minutes

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Summary

What were the events and who were the key characters that led to the lifting of the priesthood and temple ban for black people? In this episode Matt Harris will answer those questions. Rumors have gone around that the ban was lifted due to the IRS threatening to take away their tax exempt status, or because of the lawsuits involving the NAACP, etc. Matt Harris puts many of these rumors to rest and answers the real reason why (and how) the ban was lifted.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone this is Dr. John Delian of Mormon Stories Podcast. I want to thank you for
0:06.0	joining us today on this epic 17 part series featuring Dr Matthew, his amazing book,
0:12.8	Second Class Saints, Black Mormons,
0:14.9	and the Struggle for Racial Equality.
0:17.3	This series has been groundbreaking.
0:18.9	We've never had the response so far
0:22.3	that we've had in terms of people really valuing our in-depth
0:26.3	coverage of this groundbreaking book that's talking about the Mormon churches
0:31.9	priesthood and temple ban against black people and then the
0:35.8	dynamics theater workings the political mocky nations of how the sausage gets
0:40.5	made in terms of lifting the priesthood ban in the aftermath.
0:44.0	So we have some good news and bad news about this series.
0:47.0	The good news is, thanks to the generous donations of those who have been watching it so far,
0:52.0	we've been able to, I believe, more than generously
0:54.4	compensate Dr Harris for his contributions.
0:58.6	That's the good news.
0:59.9	The bad news is, you know, because we made the promise that 100% of the
1:04.9	donations would go to Matt, we have not received any compensation for about the
1:10.8	$20,000 of production costs
1:13.2	that we incurred to produce this series.
1:16.0	And that sort of imbalance would make it
1:18.6	so we wouldn't be able to produce series
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