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by crimson208 on April 25th, 2004

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Why does the percentage of ethnic minorities, particularly African-Americans, in the Church remain low?

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  • by Anonymous on December 23rd, 2005

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    How can you answer a question when the "why does?" factor is itself false?

    The first temple built outside of North America was in Hawaii, primarily for the use of the kanaka and Asian members of the Church living there. Today, over 1 in 20 of the population of the state is LDS, and most of those are what some people would call "minorities," with haoles being a distinct minority in Church population on the state.

    Likewise, throughout the world, "whites" are a minority in the Church.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never segregated members by race, though this continues to be a Protestant doctrine, and such white-supremacist groups as the Aryan Brotherhood, American Bund, Ku Klux Klan and many others are associated or even sponsored by various Protestant cults.

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    • 1978 LDS finally allowed black people into the priesthood..research this LDS stuff..it's all documented.

      Alatea

      by Alatea on December 24th, 2005

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