You
purportedly called our refusal to give the negro the priesthood a doctrine.
It occurs to me that we should call it a practise.
To
me a doctrine is a fundamental idea, a basic tenant of theology, whereas a
practise is simply a rule of action which must be justified by theology and
morality as principles in any other field pertaining to the discussion at hand.
Source:
Lowell L. Bennion, Letter to Sterling M. McMurrin, March 14, 1960, p. 1, Box
220, Folder 2 Memo and Correspondence: "The Mormon Doctrine and the
Negro" 1960, Sterling M. McMurrin Papers, 1830-2006, Special Collections,
University of Utah
