What if People with Red Hair Were Denied the Priesthood?

[Calm]

I believe he mentioned this during his FairMormon presentation as well (that he was the primary author and submitted about 50 pages article), but that might have been in the Q and A and not in the transcript if someone is looking for easy documentation.

[williamsmith]

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What if People with Red Hair Were Denied the Priesthood?

 

Poor analogy...

It should be instead, what if a particular lineage of "red hairs" were denied the Priesthood.
Clan MacLeod was denied the Priesthood, but all other red hair clans were allowed the Priesthood.
Note also how not all MacLeod's are red hairs, but they are still denied the Priesthood.

This is how the Priesthood ban was.  "Racism" was irrelevant to the issue, for plenty of other red hairs could still have the Priesthood.

Leftist women and men use the same type of argument about the Priesthood, but it's not about "Gender Inequality", it's something entirely different.
I wish Scott Gordon and others would stop misrepresenting the Church and its people as being racist in the past.  Most weren't.
We don't have the accept the popular narrative about the past which paints the church falsely when it's simply not the whole truth.

Edited November 2, 2017 by williamsmith