US Interior Secretary Stewart Udall details members who are "Negrophobes" among his reasons for disaffection from the Church.

Date
1947
Type
Manuscript
Source
Stewart Udall
Disaffected
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Stewart Udall, "Conscience of a Jack Mormon 1947," accessed December 16, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
The Internet Archive
People
Stewart Udall
Audience
Unknown
PDF
Transcription

[Udall lists fourteen reasons why he "cannot be a practicing Mormon in full fellowship," as excerpted below.]

9) The believers view themselves self-righteously, and society complacently ; their obsession with personal piety too often is a form of social impiety ;

10) Fellowship is made difficult because too many of members find it easy to be ^simultaneously devout Mormons and devout anti-Semites, lovers of their fellowmen in public and Negrophobes in private ;

11) It is a dangerous half-truth to say, as the Church has said, that if we change the individual we will of necessity change the social order -- more dangerous yet when its companion half-truth is forgotten and unspoken ;

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