Without Disclosing My True Identity
of eternal life.” (Victor L. Brown, Jr., “Homosexuality,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H.
Ludlow [New York: Macmillan, 1992] 2:656.)
“Family Watch International is one example of the many ways in which the LDS Church
and individual Mormons have in recent decades created international alliances with other religious
groups to lobby against women’s rights and LGBT equality. Other organizations through which
Mormons fight or have fought equality in the international scale include the World Congress of
Families (founded by American evangelicals, but active also in Europe and Africa), the World
Family Policy Center at BYU (since disbanded), and the Doha International Institute for Family
Studies and Development, a collaboration between Muslims and BYU law professor Richard
Wilkins.” (Hugo Salinas, “Uganda Anti-Gay Link,” QSaltLake, 27 May 2011, QSaltLake, 3 Jun. 2011
http://qsaltlake.com/2011/05/27/prominent-mormon-has-ties-to-uganda%E2%80%99s-kill-the-
gays-pastor/.
(^68) One notable exception was Elijah Abel. See ch. 8, n. 85; ch. 25, n. 19; and chapter 35,
subheading titled “The First African American Male to Hold the Priesthood by the Hand of Joseph.”
See also “Elijah Abel,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 13 Nov. 2010, Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc., 3 Jun. 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Abel.
Ironically, “in the same issue [of the Church News announcing the modern-day] authorization
of priesthood for those of black African descent, [another headline appeared]: ‘Interracial Marriage
Discouraged.’ ...Sources at LDS Church headquarters indicated that Apostle Mark E. Petersen
required this emphasis.” (See Quinn, Extensions of Power, 870.)
(^69) See D&C, Official Declaration–2, voted unanimously on 30 Sept. 1978 at the 148th
Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pursuant to letter
announcing that event dated 8 Jun. 1978, signed by the First Presidency and read by its second
counselor immediately preceding that vote.
The declaration alleges that “a revelation had been received by President Spencer W. Kimball
extending priesthood and temple blessings to all worthy male members of the Church. ... It reports
that, after he had received this revelation, which came to him ... he presented it to his counselors, who
accepted it and approved it.” The members of the Church were expected to “[r]ecognizing Spencer
W. Kimball as the prophet, seer, and revelator, and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints by “accepting this revelation.”
These statements appear inconsistent with the process described in an interview with one
of the LDS apostles who was involved. See “Interview with Apostle LeGrand Richards,” rec. 16
Aug. 1978, audiotape, found on lds-mormon.com, 3 Jun. 2011 http://www.lds-
mormon.com/legrand_richards.shtml.
(^70) Brigham Young said, “When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of
receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the
four quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time
enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.” (JD, 2:143);
“The curse will remain upon them, and they never can hold the Priesthood or share in it until
all the other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the
Priesthood and the keys thereof.” ...When the residue of the family of Adam come up and receive
their blessings, then the curse will be removed from the seed of Cain.” (JD, 7:290–1);
“Why are there so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a sin of blackness? It comes in
consequence of their fathers rejecting the powers of the Holy Priesthood, and the law of God. They will go
down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood,
then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the
priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we now are entitled to. (JD, 11:272);
See also: “The question arises from time to time in regard to the negro race and the
Priesthood. ...It is true that the negro race is barred from holding the Priesthood, and this has always