He recommends it be taken on faith that previous LDS Church leaders acted “on the basis of faith” to institutionalize anti-Black segregation. The problem, unfortunately, is that the primary faith that undergirded the institutionalization of the anti-Black priesthood and temple ban was the faith shared by white Church leaders in the secular ideology of white supremacy, the priority of relationships among white people, and the infallibility of an all-white LDS Church leadership.
