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Nonetheless, Mormon leaders have been slow to speak up in favor of civil rights. Recently, Negro leaders in Salt Lake City threatened to picket the Mormons' 133rd semiannual conference unless church leaders broke silence and formally denounced segregation. N.A.A.C.P. leaders finally heard what they had been waiting for last week in an address by Hugh D. Brown, newly chosen First Counselor to David O. McKay, 90, who is the Mormons' First President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust. "We would like it to be known," said Brown, "that there is in this church no doctrine, belief...
...Peculiar People," as Mormons call themselves, have often found that their peculiar doctrines put them at odds with their fellow citizens-and once again there is trouble in Zion. Today, the problem is the Mormon attitude toward the Negro. Not since the battles over polygamy has the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints faced such a conflict between what it practices and what other men preach...
Four Sources of Truth. In many ways, Mormons make almost ideal citizens. They are wholesome, industrious and thrifty, devoted to social welfare and higher education. But they are unsympathetic toward the Negro, largely as a consequence of the strange church doctrines formulated by the first Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, and amplified by his successors. By these doctrines, Mormons have four sources of divine truth: the Bible, the "continuous revelation" granted to Smith and his successors, and Smith's two pseudo-Biblical works, The Book of Mormon and The Pearl of Great Price...
...Kennedy's campaign cry had been to "get America moving again." Now, for 1964, it was to "make a strong America stronger." His listeners seemed to respond. That night, in the giant, timbered Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, after a stirring delivery of America the Beautiful by the Mormon choir, John Kennedy delivered what might be called his first major campaign address for next year's presidential election...
Utah (4). Mormon George Romney could probably beat Kennedy. Other Republicans, including Goldwater, presently trail the President...