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Show Paee 22 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, June 5, 1988 Blacks talk about membership in the LDS Church Blacks who NOTE the Mormon Church have EDITOR'S have joined had varied contrasting which once experiences and harbor views about the church excluded them from full participation. Here is a sampling, based on Associated Press interviews and material taken from the LDS Oral History Project of the Charles Redd Center at Brigham Afro-Americ- an Young University: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah Palmer-Taylo- r - to complain. She was Taft Benson, the presichurch who then was faith's Council of the Twelve Apostles. "I was full of hate; I was really, really angry," Ms. Palmer-Taylo- r said. "Ezra Taft Benson said, 'If you allow the people of the church to turn you against the church, then you were not worthy to be in the church in the first place.'" Na- had never experienced racism among Mormons until she moved to Utah. When her son was the target of a racial epithet hurled by another Mormon youth, she went to the church's talie headquarters met by Ezra dent of the leader of the ers of the National Football League, Owens was converted through his as- sociation with Raiders tight end Todd Christensen, a former Brigham Young University halfback. "Now I am at the point where I am not going to worry about whether people twinge, whether they are shocked or whether they disagree. It makes no difference," Owens said. "If they don t love me, that is not my problem. 1 am stm going to love them and I am still going to be an MELVILLE, N.Y. Burgess Owens is an example of middle-clasprofessional blacks moving successfully into LOS ANGELES Robert Lang was the mainstream of the Mormon faith. ordained to the priesthood on the first A former wide receiver with the Sunday following the announcement New York Jets and the Oakland Raid- - that the priesthood ban was lifted. s, A few weeks later, he and his wife became the first black couple to have their marriage "sealed," or con- - firmed, in a Mormon temple. One of his early church assignments was to accompany white Mormon mis- sionaries into Watts for door-to-do- or trading after dark. "There were some places they would go at night that I was afraid to go," he said FORTALEZA, Brazil - Helvecio Martins is intimately familiar with Mormon doctrines which, until 1978, banned blacks from the priesthood. For four years, from 1974 to 1978, Martins held the post of public relations director for the church in north Institute graduation tonight ern Brazil, and frequently was called on to explain ihy he and other black Mormons were denied full participation. Some six months after the ban was lifted, Martins became the first black Mormon to serve in a stake presidency, a lay body that supervises several congregations. A retired executive for Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, Martins in 1987 became the first black Mormon mission president, supervising 151 missionaries in northern Brazil. "When I first heard the missionaries, I knew nothing of the church, nothing of Mormonism, nothing of the priesthood,", Martins said. "The testimony I received was so strong, rio question ever entered my mind. MS! The Orem Institute of Religion, adjacent to Utah Valley Community College will hold its annual Institute graduation tonight at 5. The services will be held under the direction of President Max L. Pinegar, of the Orem Utah College Stake with President 0. James Brown, of the LDSSA conducting the proceedings. Elder Monte J. Brough, regional representative of all the colleges and unviersity stakes in Utah Valley will be in attendance and will speak to the graduates. The students will be acknowledged in three areas. Students who have completed 12 hours of instruction at the Institute will receive a Certificate of Achievement and those completing 24 hours will re- ceive a Diploma of Graduation, and those who have completed 30 hours will receive a Special Certificate of Achieve- ment. will follow the All family and graduation. friends are invited. A reception Hunter set apart Howard W. Hunter was set apart Thursday as president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Hunter was set apart by Church President Ezra Taft Benson during a meeting of General Authorities of the church in the Salt Lake Temple. Hunter succeeds the late President Marion G. Romney, who succumbed May 20 after a lengthy illness. President Hunter had been the acting president of the Council of the Twelve since October, 1985. LDS movie honored The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints has re- ceived a CINE Golden Eagle Award for its motion picture "How Rare a Possession-Th- e Book of Mormon." The announcement was made by the Council on International Nontheatrical Events (CINE) in Washington D.C., a nonprofit organization that se- lects outstanding American films for entry in foreign motion picture events. Produced by the church in 1987, "How Rare a Posses-sion"depic- ts the origin and coming forth of the Book of Mormon and its influence on two diverse individuals an American, Parley P. Pratt, and an Italian Protestant minister, Vincenzo Di Francesca. When the motion picture aired over Utah's KBYU in November, 1987, it drew the largest audience ever registered by a public television station in the United States. The film was selected by professional juries as an excellent production in the religion category and will be honored at the CINE Annual Awards Ceremonies Nov. 2. 30-De- c. , Mission calls Elder Kenneth Tyler Donald V. and Betty Canyon View 1st Ward, been called to serve in Lansing LDS mission. Karr, son of Karr, of the in Orem, has the Michigan, Elder Blaine William Hamilton, son of Ralph and Sandy Hamilton, of the Provo l?th Ward, Grandview Stake, has been called to serve in the Melbourne, Australia LDS mission. Tsk. tsk. 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