blueglass Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) On 7/19/2019 at 3:00 PM, smac97 said: He was a practicing surgeon at the time. From Wikipedia: He's been a prominent leader in the Church for decades. If he had a history of racism, I think we would have known about it by now. Thanks, -Smac we know Pres Nelson was a practicing surgeon, I don't see how restating his professional practice helps provide a window into his racial views? Was he a practicing advocate for racial equality? Lester Bush was the physician that wrote the highly influential 1973 dialogue article which overthrew false traditions about the priesthood ban beginning with Joseph Smith. This article influenced Pres Kimball and many others. Yet Dr. Lester Bush did not become prophet, Dr. Russell Nelson did. I'm just interested to know how he felt about the ban. We know President Oaks felt all justifications for it were flimsy and weak. From Edward Kimball's article we can read that Pres Kimball when interviewing stake presidents was not interested in boxed in answers defending the ban - he was interested in heart-felt innovation of thought encouraging change, hoping for change. If Pres Kimball interviewed a prospective Stake President at the time and he asked about the racial ban and they responded with full sustaining support for it, President Kimball would likely feel boredom and internal disappointment. Edited July 24, 2019 by blueglass 1
The Nehor Posted July 24, 2019 Posted July 24, 2019 Well, we do have this from President Oaks where he describes a bit of President Nelson’s reaction to the news of the end of the Ban: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900020345/president-nelson-president-oaks-to-speak-tonight-at-lds-be-one-celebration-of-1978-revelation.html 1
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