• column in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Paredes was raised in Bay City, Michigan. Paredes joined the LDS Church with his family in 1979. He...
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    stated, "What is the mark? You will see it on the countenance of every African you ever did see....",: 38  and "the Lord put a mark upon [Cain], which is...
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    of Great Price described the mark of Cain as dark skin,: 12  and church president Brigham Young stated, "What is the mark [of Cain]? You will see it on...
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  • Charisma" (PDF). Dialogue. 26 (3). Retrieved November 13, 2017. Petersen, Mark E. (1981). Joseph of Egeypt. Deseret Book Company. Barney, Kevin (July 29...
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    cursed Adam's son Cain and put a mark on him after Cain killed Abel; the text does not specify the nature of the mark.: xii  Smith's canonical scripture...
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    T. Smith, Black and Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) p. 30 Mark E. Petersen was in Ecuador on an assignment and Delbert L. Stapley was in...
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    condemnation before Him .... Stuart Bingham, Ryan (July 2015). "Curses and Marks: Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible...
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    membership. Those who did, often faced discrimination. LDS Church apostle Mark E. Petersen describes a Black family that tried to join the LDS Church: "[some...
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    ordained to the LDS priesthood. The first reference to dark skin as a curse and mark from God in Latter Day Saint writings can be found in the Book of Mormon...
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    racial restrictions. In the book of Genesis found in the Bible, God puts a mark on Cain after he kills his brother Abel. Brigham Young taught that Cain killed...
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    put the year at 1808 and others at 1810. However, the 1850 Census record marks 1808 as the year of Abel's birth, and both Abel's patriarchal blessing and...
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    consistently opposed marriage between different ethnicities. In 1954, apostle Mark E. Petersen taught that segregation was inspired by God, arguing that "what...
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  • Angela Nadine Mabanta Paredes (born April 17, 1983), professionally known as Ala Paredes, is an American-born, Australia-based Filipino environmental activist...
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  • the first time it was publicized to a wider audience.: 95  An address by Mark E. Peterson was widely circulated by religious faculty at Brigham Young University...
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  • intermarrying Nephites would participate in Lamanite traditions, so God placed the mark to prevent the spread of Lamanite culture among the Nephites. The Book of...
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    in Toronto, Ontario, Humana-Paredes is the younger daughter of two Chilean political refugees, ballet dancer Myriam Paredes and volleyball player Hernán...
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    Abel, God cursed him and put a mark on him,(Genesis 4:8–15) although the Bible does not state the nature of the mark. In another biblical account, Ham...
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    Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel was born on 18 August 1953 in San Esteban Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico. She is the daughter of politician Higinio Paredes Ramos. She...
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    Henry D. Moyle, Ezra Taft Benson, Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, and Mark E. Peterson were leading proponents of segregation.: 67  In the late 1940s...
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    History Walker Lewis Green Flake Black people and early Mormonism Staker, Mark L. (2009). Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's...
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