Obama's relief society
Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, was whisked from a rally with about 1,000 supporters yesterday to a more intimate meeting with Mormon church elders M. Russell Ballard and Quentin L. Cook in the church office tower.
Darius Gray, co-founder of the Genesis Group, an organization for black Mormons, hopes the meeting will lead good things.
“I think it’s marvelous that Michelle Obama is meeting with them,” Gray said. “It’s an appropriate beginning both for the First Presidency and for the candidacy of Barack Obama.”
The church denied black men full membership, or priesthood, until 1978.
Representatives of the church declined to say what Cook and Ballard discussed with Michelle Obama. Judging from her performance at the Salt Palace rally and the grins, above, I'm betting Barack's got two more votes.
3 Comments:
Yes, what an interesting photo; in the center a beautiful, glowing woman who is the picture of intelligence, youth & optimism; flanking her are two stiff & pasty old goats that are dwarfed in her presence.
30 years ago the color of her skin marked her as one of the less valiant spirits who descended from Abel's murdering brother.
I'm glad that's all in the past.
That's as close as a black person is evergoing to get to being a leader in the LDS faith.
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