Holland ever so carefully walks the line, navigating the enormous pressure not to appear to undercut any previous LDS Church leader: “I have to concede to my earlier colleagues.” He does not say that the ban itself was wrong, but he does observe that the various rationales offered for the ban were “inadequate” and “wrong.” Holland had access to clear historical expositions by independent LDS historians of how the ban came into being. Still, he insists that “we just don’t know” how or why it came into being.
