I have a question

Is it OK to lie when as a prophet, seer, and revelator, your job is to uphold and protect the institution?

In the “Be One” celebration on Friday June 1, at the Conference Center, Dallin Oaks, representing the Church, said something to the effect that “The reasons that had been given to try to explain the restriction on members of African American descent by previous church leaders were promptly and publically disavowed.”

“That’s not really true,” says Doug Fabrizio on his podcast interviewing Max Perry Mueller, a historian, who recently wrote the book, Race and the Making of the Mormon People.

“It took 100 years. It’s yet to be disavowed.”

“There is a deep felt need for some kind of contrition from the Institutional Church. They cannot do that because of their belief in continued revelation. It cannot disavow its past; it cannot apologize; to say it was wrong. As late as the 1970’s, General Authorities were preaching from the pulpit that the Curse of Cain cannot hold the Priesthood.”

“They claim it was a policy established by Heavenly Father. God’s idea.”  In 1908, a few months after the death of Jane Manning James, a faithful Black woman who suffered two harsh migrations for the church 1) from Connecticut to Nauvoo; 2) from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley, the Quorum of the Twelve voted to create a policy to not let Blacks hold the Priesthood. They could join only.

We heard it right up until 1978 – how curses and linage were the reasons Blacks could not hold the Priesthood.

Dallin Oaks insists, “We don’t apologize. We look to the future.”

“The leaders are responsible for upholding and protecting the institution, they are not necessarily truth tellers,” Max Mueller explains.

That is my question. Is that OK?

Additionally, do we honor our scriptures?  For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen, and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile. 2nd Nephi 26:33.