Welcome Senior. You don't visit us here much.
Any way I been saying for last 3 months if John takes Mitt he wins. Anyone else I don't think he will. So I can't vote yet.
This is just part of the book of mormon, why mormons believe indians have red skin.
The basic plot of the BOM is that some Hebrews came to America in 600 B.C. and settled the continent. One group, the Nephites, were righteous. The other main group, the Lamanites, were unrighteous. This becomes the source of their racist doctrine. Evidently the LDS god figured that his people weren't smart enough to tell a bad guy from a good guy. So he decided to kill two birds with one stone. Since the Lamanites were so evil, he had to punish them for their sins. And he figured, "Why not judge them in such a way that they will not only be punished, but also outwardly branded, so that anyone can easily tell that they are wicked." So he decided to curse them with a black skin. That's right, the curse was that they were given a "skin of blackness." The LDS church used this scapegoat theology to prevent blacks from fully participating in their church until 1978. Yes, that's 1978, not 1878! Their leaders once again blamed it on God.
II Nephi 5:21 says, "And he (God) had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
This particular verse actually adds another ingredient to the formula. It even says that another reason that the Lamanites were give a skin of blackness, was so that that the righteous Nephites would not be attracted to the unrighteous Lamanites. So evidently the LDS not only view "being black" as a curse from their god, but it is also repugnant to the eye.
Now at this juncture, the average LDS will pull the "that was then, this is now" excuse. They will claim that since 1978, the LDS church has allowed the blacks into the "Priesthood." In their eyes, this somehow exonerates them from what is in the BOM. But allowing the blacks into the Priesthood does not change one word of the BOM. It still says that the blacks got the color of their skin as a curse from God. And unbeknownst to most LDS, the BOM even puts a time limit on the curse? eternity!