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021 How the Priesthood-Temple Ban Became Fully Entrenched Policy in the Church

Church History Matters

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The History of the Priesthood and Temple Ban

In 1852, Brigham Young won the debates that led to Utah becoming a slave territory. The discriminatory theology articulated in those 1852 debates eventually becomes very entrenched in the church and leads to what we call the priesthood and temple ban. "I like it in the Book of Mormon when Meronai says, condemn me not for my imperfections"

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