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Some members of the Church believe that lobbying, demonstrations, petitions, rallies, marches, protests, and so forth should be brought to bear upon the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to pressure them into making what those members believe would be desirable improvements in Church practices and even doctrines (e.g., on the ordination of women and the validation of homosexual relationships).
They not infrequently point to the priesthood revelation of 1978, which, they say, came about (wholly or in part) because the Brethren were (my language, their idea) “feeling the heat.”
That noteworthy revelation came under the administration of — believing Latter-day Saints would say that it was received by — President Spencer W. Kimball.
So what did he think about the value and effect of efforts to pressure Church leaders into receiving a revelation (or, to some, a “revelation”) changing prior policy on the ordination to the priesthood of black men of African descent? Here’s an answer:
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