Gentiles Wonder about Mormon Future

Steve Sailer asks “What will Mormons do post Romney?”It’s interesting that the gentiles would care enough to wonder, and also interesting to observe how devotion to The One Thing can limit understanding. In the case of Sailer and his readers, The One Thing is race.

Mormons believe in lineage, inheritance, tribes, nations, and race. We also believe that God can make stones into sons of Abraham as needed. For people who believe that the blood of Christ opens a way for sinful disciples to inherit all that the Father has, DNA determinism has a limited scope. Hoping that I may find a place among the throngs on the right hand of God is far more grandiose a vision than joining diverse peoples into wards, stakes, and a church.

In the here and now, Mormons have experience working in their units with people of other races. An experience such as mine is not uncommon of being part of a ward in Baltimore with a Korean bishop, a Czech Relief Society president, an executive secretary from Ghana, and a ward mission leader from Trinidad. After my two years living with them, the units were changed, and I was branch clerk working with a black American branch president and his counselors, one Japanese-born, Hawaiian-raised, the other a white man from Utah.