Role of blacks in Mormon faith topic of conference
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Issues of race and diversity in Mormonism bubbled up again after the church selected three white men from Utah last weekend to fill vacancies on a high-level governing body.
That disappointed many Mormons who hoped for an infusion of diversity.
On Friday in a series of panels at the University of Utah, religious scholars, Mormon leaders and everyday Latter-day Saints will gather to discuss the status of blacks in a religion that didn't allow men of African descent in the lay priesthood until 1978.
Scheduled speakers include academics, black Mormons and one of the highest-ranking black leaders in the entire religion: Joseph Sitati of Kenya. Sitati belongs to a second-tier governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called the Quorum of the Seventy.
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