Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church
Source: Associated Press
Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church
| December 14, 2014 | Updated: December 14, 2014 8:31am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A year after Mormon leaders published a landmark essay on the church's past ban on blacks in the priesthood, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say race seems to remain a taboo topic.
Amid a nationwide uproar over race and police use of force, black members of the church say they want to talk about the issues with members of their faith, but it's tough.
"We can't talk at church about Michael Brown and other unarmed black men being shot by police," said Kevin Mosley, a retired Pennsylvania state trooper and LDS convert, "because it's so hard for members to talk about race at all."
The Mormon church has its own fraught history with race. It barred men of African descent from its lay clergy until 1978.
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some were adopted into it as children -
or have parents or other family who were members.
