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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Personally, I find the Mormon Church's horrifically awkward treatment of blacks, gays and polygamy (which were all virtually ignored for decades after other institutions faced them head-on) no different than some American Catholic dioceses' bizarre attempts to bury or ignore improprieties by priests or officials, in that I don't really want to extend the organization's lunacy to the individual until they show that they're "playing ball" (so to speak, oops) for the org.
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I see one difference. At least with the Catholic Church (of which I am not a member, just for full disclosure), no one tries to credibly argue that the blind eye turned to the terrible things priests did was anything but repugnant or was required by divine revelation. With the Mormons, on the other hand, polygamy and decades of terrible treatment of blacks, which were predicated on revelations binding on the faithful, were simply wiped away by new revelations. No repentence, nothing other than "new rules."