I don't want to put down Mitt Romney's Mormon faith

[Dandini]

6. sub-humans

Your ignorance of actual history says it all... "sub-human" must be something you made up... to increase the impact of a falsehood...

The first black person was baptized two years after the Church’s founding in 1830. The Mormons started to ordain men of black African heritage into the priesthood the first one in 1836, even to the office of a Seventy, under the Apostles. Then the United States government and particular non-Mormon state officials in Missouri and Illinois started to persecute the Mormons for doing so. Which other church in America (or any other social institution in America for that matter) was putting blacks in leadership positions over whites in the late 1830s to 1840s? And black members remained with the church throughout the priesthood ban...

Historically the “mark of Cain” or “curse of Ham” came from the Bible and was a commonly accepted concept of the early 16th to the 19th century Christian religions of Europeans and Americans regarding people of black skin - look at your Baptist churches into the 1960’s. And though there has been “opinions” spoken by a few LDS church members about the “mark of Cain” or “curse of Ham” being the main reasons for skin color being black, it is not and never has been taught as LDS church doctrine. The Civil Rights movement occurred in the 1960s, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians know that the “Act” didn’t change centuries-old bigotry, prejudice, and segregation (voluntary and involuntary) overnight. In fact, it was not until 1995 that the Southern Baptist Convention officially renounced its "racist roots." A number of Democrats had strong ties to the creation of the KKK in the United States, does that mean that all Democrats are racist and teach racism?

Today there are over 1 million Mormons of black African heritage worldwide. While African-Americans make up just 3 percent of Mormons in the United States, according to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, they make up 9 percent of Mormon converts… In Africa, now at just over 300,000 Latter-day Saints, church membership has grown by almost 10,000 new members per year, and they now have 3 LDS Temples there, and are building 2 more.