(Rachel Molenda | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gladys Knight directs the Be One Choir at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, June 1, 2018. The First Presidency of the LDS Church sponsored "Be One," an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1978 change that allowed black men and boys to hold the priesthood and black women and girls to enter LDS temples.
What’s wrong with me? Instead of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Mormonism lifting its ban on priesthood for blacks, I’m left wondering why a church, especially one that claims a direct pipeline to the Almighty, would have discriminated on the basis of skin color in the first place.
M.J. Ogden, North Ogden