On May 5, The Salt Lake Tribune reported the story of Brian Dawson, a Caucasian man in an interracial marriage who answered a student's question about how his wife could be a member of the LDS Church, given its history with people of African descent.
Dawson used the www.lds.org essay entitled "Race and the Priesthood," which states that the priesthood restriction can be contextualized against the environment of "American racial culture." As Dawson reports it, he was released from his calling for refusing to stop teaching from the essay.
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