Darius Gray is an African American man who converted to the church in 1964. He learned about the racist ban the night before his scheduled baptism but felt prompted to join the church anyway. Now he’s exploring the paper trail surrounding the policy.
’s engaging and highly readable new book that traces the ban from its beginnings under Brigham Young through its 1978 reversal to today, when some people still try to justify it as having been God’s will.
You’ve been holding two things in tension for a long time: trying to explain to people why you are a member of this church but also understanding why they might see those things as incompatible because you were African American.• Yeah, it can be difficult. It’s not just what the distant history was; it’s what the current realities are, and when you combine the two, it can get to be too much. It’s a troubling history in many ways.
And I have to give Deseret Book credit: My editor, Lisa Roper, never backed down and asked that I give them a chance. So we worked together and came up with a manuscript that we were all pleased with. project allowed the narrative to include the stories of Black Latter-day Saints. The way the story has been told in the past has largely been from the perspective of the white male leaders, the decision-makers — at what point did they decide to restrict the priesthood and the temple to people of African descent? But this book tells the story through the lives of actual Black Latter-day Saints, including people that haven’t been written about before.
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