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behind enemy lines tonight's episode new insights into the priesthood and

temple ban last Wednesday night on august 23rd 2023 we did a show that dealt

with some parts of this issue of the priesthood in temple ban this was bill

show he had a certain direction he wanted to go he gets to determine the

framing and the content of the shows where he is in charge and I think it's an

excellent show and I would encourage everybody to go back and listen to that

that's Mormonism live from last Wednesday august 23rd 2023 the point I'm

making here is that I also do a great deal of research for the Mormonism

live show even when it's not my show even when I'm not in charge of the show

like bill was last week and as part of my research for that show I went back

and I obtained and printed out the famous and influential Lester E. Bush Jr.

paper from the 1973 August edition of dialogue titled Mormonism's Negro

doctrine and historical overview the reason this article ended up being so

important is because it laid forth a basis for untethering the LDS church from

the temple ban and priesthood ban that it had imposed upon black people since the

earliest days of Brigham Young's presidency and indeed we were to find out

much later from President Kimball's son or grandson I think it was his

grandson that he located among President Kimball's papers after his death

a copy of this dialogue article and that indeed President Kimball had not

only read it he had marked it up and annotated it in his own hand so it does

appear that this article played an important role in the lifting of the

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