Mormon moment

[Gen]

<span style="font-weight: bold">Despite the church’s growing diversity, there is one question that Donald Kelly hears over and over: How can he, a black man, belong to a church that didn’t allow full membership for blacks until 1978?</span>

“I don’t look at [the church’s past position on race] as much as I do the way this church helps me become a better person today,” says Kelly, 28, of West Palm Beach.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Born in Jamaica, he converted to Mormonism in the 8th grade, the only one in his family to do so. </span>He was one of the few black students at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he was student body president.

“It’s so white there, I couldn’t find someone to cut my hair,” he says.

For Kelly, the Mormon tenants of hard work and education align with his goals of getting an MBA, “at Harvard or Wharton,” then starting a business, getting into private equity funding and eventually, politics.

If his desired career path sounds similar to that of a particular Republican presidential candidate, well, perhaps, yet Kelly won’t say who he’s supporting in the election.

“<span style="font-weight: bold">What I love about the church is they never talk politics,” he says. “Although as a church member, I feel closer to the Republican side of things.”</span>

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[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">For Kelly, the Mormon tenants of hard work and education align with his goals of getting an MBA, “at Harvard or Wharton,” then starting a business, getting into private equity funding and eventually, politics.</div></div>

and how does it help our fellow man

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

<span style="font-weight: bold">Despite the church’s growing diversity, there is one question that Donald Kelly hears over and over: How can he, a black man, belong to a church that didn’t allow full membership for blacks until 1978?</span></div></div>

This dumb A$$ question could be said about the whole christian religion.
Look how long dem nuh mek blk ppl guh church, den dem hadfi ha dem own church an couldn't come up inna yt chuch eedah.

Bwoy blk ppl are some figgetful ppl sah

[Tuff Gong]

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The other day a pair of Mormons came by.
One of them said he knew a Jamaican he trained with.
Of course I talked to them for a while outside but told them they could not come in as i was an Atheist and it would not help too much to waste their time on I.

[RichD]

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years ag when i lived up north a couple of them came by my house. i invited them in and we sat and chatted for a little while. they gave me one of their &quot;Bibles&quot; and promised to come back in a week or so. when they came back i again invited them and to discuss what i had red. I told them that i thought this Joseph Smith was running a good scam

i still have the book somewhere.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">. I told them that i thought this Joseph Smith was running a good scam

i still have the book somewhere. </div></div>

Funny the fat guy (they always have fat one with a slim one), said he believed what is written in the book and if it was true then Joseph Smith must have been the greatest conman.
So I think you might have had that effect on them. They have included that in their little talks negative/positive proposition.