African Americans need not apply?

Utah is home to new
“Whites Only” dating site 

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Late Mormon Apostle Mark E. Peterson 
​​would have approved

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Before the Mormon Church ceased barring blacks from the priesthood, it was not unusual to hear remarks, official remarks, the likes of the excerpt at right. It was taken from a 1954 speech by Mormon Apostle Mark E. Peterson at Brigham Young University during the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College/Online College Level. You can read the whole damning speech by clicking here.

But today we are told that racism in the Mormon Church is a thing of the past. On June 1, 1978, when the church caught up with the 60s by allowing all races to hold its priesthood, instantly racism vanished from Utah. After all, when the prophet speaks, Mormons fall into line.

Except, that is, for the exceptions. 

Lots and lots of exceptions.

​The latest? A “Whites Only” dating site. Spawned and headquartered in—where else?—Utah. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.

Race Problems
As They Affect
The Church

From a 1954 speech
by late ​Mormon Apostle
​Mark E. Peterson

(Read the entire damning
​speech by clicking here)

“The discussion on civil rights ... has blinded the thinking of some of our own people ... We who teach in the Church certainly must have our feet on the ground and not to be led astray by the philosophies of men on this subject.

I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, "First we pity, then endure, then embrace ...”