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video found: J. Reuben Clark’s statement on keeping black blood away from white Mormons

profxm, March 11, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Racqdp5E0x0

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Comments (4)

  1. chanson says:
    March 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    Right, because if you got a transfusion of colored blood before 1978, you might risk accidentally defiling the temple, and then they’d have to rededicate it and everything.

    Reply
  2. profxm says:
    March 11, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    I know, right!!!

    Or, perhaps, they’d strip you of your priesthood if you’re male, ’cause even one drop of black blood meant you were unworthy.

    Reply
  3. chanson says:
    March 11, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    Or, perhaps, they’d strip you of your priesthood if you’re male, ’cause even one drop of black blood meant you were unworthy.

    Can you imagine if you had to baptize your kid before the transfused blood had left your system? Your kid would never have the real ordinance, and would probably be stuck in spirit prison until the millenium!!!

    Reply
  4. profxm says:
    March 11, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    Oh this just gets better and better!

    Reply

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