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Retired Designer-Builder formerly practicing Attorney at Law.
Credentials include ordaining a Black man to priesthood in the LDS Church leading to a public struggle with the church yielding and ordaining Black men about 2 years later. Doug had completed a mission for the British Mission in 1951 with the title of Mission Architect. He consulted with church prophet David O' McKay for approval for construction of the London Temple and was responsible for the preliminary design.> later in life Doug became disenchanted with the closed nature of the church leadership and sought meetings with them concerning issue which they refused to discuss. That refusal led to his open struggle to force change where and when needed. He has written his biography and is currently published as "Under the Mormon Tree" available on CreateSpace E Store and soon on Amazon.com To order on E Store click or copy and paste https://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do?id=3394801 He has also just published 'No Mormon For President' Available at Amazon Books. The book answers the reasons why Mitt Romney should not be elected president.
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Sunday, June 14, 2015An Opportunity for the Mormon Church to Make Amends....Elevate a Black Member to Office of Apostle!. After 37 years of attempting to rid itself of a racist image the Mormon Church keep blindly and falsely fighting against the image. It needs to do more that lying about its past it needs to do something different by filling the recently created vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve with a Black priesthood holder. Doing so will shake off the shackles that continues to hold the church to its past history!
Tuesday, April 7, 2015Removing Vestiges of Discrimination In Mormon Utah [An Easter Message] The Mormon Church published a response to a lecture given by a BYU professor in 2012 about the development of the racist practices of the church. This article repudiates that public response and suggests a way to end the discussion by reanaming Brigham Young University to a name that cannot shame the church
