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In recent years we might be compared to a team of doctors issuing prescriptions to cure or to immunize our members against spiritual diseases. Each time some moral or spiritual ailment was diagnosed, we have rushed to the pharmacy to concoct another remedy, encapsulate it as a program and send it out with pages of directions for use... Over medication, over-programming is a critically serious problem.

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks found itself the victim of bad timing, appearing just three years following the LDS Church’s 1978 Black Revelation. Mormons of all stripes anxious to move on focused on embracing their black brethren and sisters as ecclesiastical equals while ignoring the Church’s recently abandoned practice of black priesthood denial and prohibition on African-American entry into the temple. A climate of institutional amnesia prevailed, wherein Latter-day Saints chose to forget this now embarrassing practice, previously promoted as essential doctrine.