"There will be no reference to the historical exclusion of African-Americans from the priesthood, a bar which was lifted only in 1978."
Quit using the term African American. Not everybody who is BLACK is American. Are you implying that the Mormons would of accepted Jamaican Africans or Swiss Africans?
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