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		<title>An Exception Having Made, or You Might Be Racist If&#8230; (Part 4)</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/03/25/an-exception-having-made-or-you-might-be-racist-if-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of Joseph in Egypt stands as a metaphor for the atonement and instructs us in patience, faith, and brotherhood.  For my purposes here, the reconciliation of Jacob’s sons with their brother, whom they had sold to Middianites and not seen in many years, is particularly relevant. During the time that Joseph lived in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=35238&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Exception Being Made in His Case…Or, You Might Be A Racist If…Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Church statements of Feb. 29, 2012 (“We don’t know why, how or when” [the restriction came into being], LDS respondents tended to back off the Curse of Cain or the old “Fence-sitter” rationales.  Nonetheless, some clung fiercely to one defense: That God has always restricted the priesthood, as evidenced by the fact that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=35043&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Exception Having Been Made&#8230;Or, You Might Be A Racist If&#8230;PART 2</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/03/12/an-exception-having-been-made-or-you-might-be-a-racist-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 Perhaps the most frequently cited Brigham Young quote which anti-Mormons plug into comments after any article even remotely related to Mormonism is this one: You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=34885&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Exception Having Been Made&#8230;OR, You May Be a Racist If&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/03/10/an-exception-having-been-made-or-you-may-be-a-racist-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I Early LDS Church historians (Andrew Jensen and Kate Carter, for example), writing after the priesthood restriction was in place, dealt with the known fact of Elijah Abel’s priesthood with the simple phrase, “an exception having been made in his case.”  Some suggested that the priesthood was his reward for working on the Kirtland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=34833&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 23, 1980. I am in labor. A midwife attends me at my home. The pain is greater than anything I could have imagined. “Is it close?” I ask. The midwife nods. She’s a Mormon hippie, and she’s smiling. “Hurry,” I moan. “Oh no,” says the midwife. “There’s nothing to hurry.” “Please.” “I think it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=32758&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to a Lost One from Long Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this letter while looking for something else. Does it matter when I wrote it? I don&#8217;t think so. Does it matter whether I wrote it to one of my children or just in a fit of maternal imagination? I don&#8217;t think it does. If you are the parent of a struggling child, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=29015&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Is No Respecter of Persons&#8211;How&#8217;s That Workin&#8217; For Ya?</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/08/24/god-is-no-respecter-of-persons-hows-that-workin-for-ya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have now had lesson #30 in Gospel Doctrine: &#8220;God is No Respecter of Persons.&#8221; The young man I team-teach with taught it three weeks ago, and I watched, mostly in silence. MOSTLY. My students know what I do, so the question came up, directed to me: &#8220;Why was there a priesthood restriction?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=28173&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Elder Marion Duff Hanks</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/08/08/in-memoriam-elder-marion-d-hanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I woke my son with the words, &#8220;Elder Hanks has died.&#8221; He responded, &#8220;Duffy? He died?&#8221; I always called him Elder Hanks, and got upset when some of the aides in the center where he spent his last years called him Duff and handled him like a child. I wanted to yell, &#8220;Do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=27943&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctified Memory</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/30/sanctifiedmemory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, I attended the funeral of a long-time English department colleague, Richard G. Ellsworth, who was also in the Provo ward of my childhood: Oak Hills II. Richard was our enthusiastic chorister, the kind of conductor who invested his body and his hair (it was long enough to react to his arms&#8217; energetic movements&#8211;and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=27782&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All God&#8217;s Critters: Some Thoughts on the Priesthood Restriction and Differing Opinions &#8211; Part III</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/24/all-gods-critters-some-thoughts-on-the-priesthood-restriction-and-differing-opinions-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part III Prejudice, which President Kimball called “thou ugly,” mattered deeply to President Gordon B. Hinckley. He was troubled to hear about anyone being mistreated—and particularly when the excuse for mistreatment was race-based. Darius Gray was similarly concerned as he received countless calls from men and women all over the United States who were still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=12696&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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