Why Being Mormon Matters If You Want To Be President of the United States
If you read Mormon literature, Jesus is portrayed as white with blue eyes, but not because he’s a metaphor with deeper meaning but because mormons really believe that Jesus was white. The Mormon faith was founded by a guy who would get drunk and reveal his golden tablets that only he could see. (Sound familiar, Moses?) In the book, The 17th Wife, Joseph Smith’s wife reveals his habits, beliefs and what he was really like. For instance he saw people of color, mostly Native Americans as “marked people, filthy loathsome people cast out to live with the beasts.” (This was actually in the Mormon Bible.)
The Mormon Bible also uses the words “white someness and delight someness” to describe what people of color have lost and can only gain back by becoming Mormon. If they convert to the Mormon faith and they are obedient and loyal, their skin will turn white and of course, only white people can go to heaven. White-skinned Mormons can gain favor if they take brown-skinned children and teach them Mormonism so they too can become white.
There is a mind-blowing article that was written in the 1980′s about two black football players who both got scholarships to BYU. They were thrilled to have scholarships, but found themselves having to take a class on being Mormon. To their shock, the professor told the class that only white people go to heaven. It was a long year for them. But even blacks have a place in the Mormon religion. If they served the faith, they could enter the bottom floor of the three tier heaven.( Frank Deford wrote the article in about 1980 in the National Sports Daily.)
