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by Obery Hendricks
Huffington Post<\/p>\n

When it comes to others\u2019 choice of religions, I\u2019m pretty much a live-and-let-live guy. In fact, I don\u2019t believe in religious litmus tests of any kind. Frankly, I think they are self-righteous and insulting. Yet I must admit that there is something about Mitt Romney\u2019s religion that I find deeply troubling, particularly in light of the possibility that he could become the next president of this nation. What concerns me is this: the Book of Mormon, the book that Mitt Romney and all Mormons<\/a> embrace as divinely revealed scripture that is more sacred, more true, and more inerrant than any other holy book on earth, declares that black people are cursed. That\u2019s right. Cursed. And not only accursed, but lazy and aesthetically ugly to boot.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about ascribed racism such as we see in Christianity, in which racist meanings are attributed to certain verses of the Bible that actually contain no such meanings, as with the Gen. 9:25 cursing of Canaan (not Ham!) which, though used as \u201cproof\u201d of black wickedness and inferiority, in actuality has nothing to do with race.
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