Other stupid and bigoted things my parents did - contributed money for the construction of multiple temples that the handful of Black LDS members couldn't even enter solely because of their skin color. My father defiantly cited the handful of African-Americans who went west with Bigot Young (whom even the LDS Church acknowledges was a thoroughgoing racist) as justification for LDS bigotry. One of them, Jane Manning James, lived with the Smith family in Nauvoo and had her request to receive her Temple endowment and sealing repeatedly denied. Eventually, LDS leaders allowed her to be sealed to the Smith family as their eternal servant but didn't even let her enter the temple to attend the ceremony.
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