However, the truth will prevail and so here is one comment that came to my last posting (before I was silenced) and my response to it.
Lisa wrote: "Nina, better than Elder Tanner's quote is the quote directly from Brigham Young himself which makes Elder Tanner look like a civil rights leader. Brigham Young made it very clear that blacks would never receive the priesthood in this lifetime. I'd hate to post his entire racist diatribe here again because it really is disgusting and I already posted it in a response under the "Hi I'm Cara" profile. But basically that whole article that you linked to is a worthless waste of internet space once you consider Brigham Young's quote."
My Reply: Thank You Lisa for having the courage to explore a different viewpoint, even though your comment indicates that you did not explore it very carefully. The main point of the latest blog is that the Ordain Women advocates and Anti-Mormons are very similar. Your comment only serves to reinforce that conclusion as you can’t get much more Anti-Mormon than declaring the Prophet Brigham Young to be a disgusting, bigoted, racist.
Also, you missed the deeper issues. Since it is obvious you were not at the meeting where Brigham Young allegedly made the statement that you quote, you are relying upon someone else’s recordings of what was said. Thus you do not escape the same problems of context. You are missing historical context, context of what else was said at the meeting, context of everything else the prophet BY said about the issue, and most importantly…… spiritual context, which anti-Mormons and OW advocates seemingly cannot grasp. Spiritual context is vital. In Jesus’ day it transformed his teaching of cannibalism (John 6) which many of his disciples found to be equally disgusting, into the supernal, sweet doctrine of the Holy Communion (Sacrament). Their inability to understand spiritual context lead them to reject Jesus, and miss his true doctrine.
Finally, even if by some omniscient power, Lisa can verify that BY said it, that it was recorded correctly and provide all the missing contexts to it, that would still not overcome the point that not everything a prophet says is doctrine, and there is no way Lisa can ever prove that BY was teaching what she calls “diatribe” as doctrine for the church…… as opposed to merely expressing opinion.