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|H=Do critics of Mormonism apply a double standard when attacking the Church on race issues?
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|L1=Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
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{{:Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?}}
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|link=http://www.lds.org/topics/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng
|title=Race and the Priesthood
|publication=Gospel Topics
|date=2013
|summary=Joseph Fielding Smith, for example, wrote in 1907 that the belief was “quite general” among Mormons that “the Negro race has been cursed for taking a neutral position in that great contest.” Yet this belief, he admitted, “is not the official position of the Church, [and is] merely the opinion of men.”
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