Suffering the shame of the world, Moroni stated that blood has been shed

There are three great things that we cast off because we could not bear the shame of the world.

Polygamy was cast off because we could not bear the shame of the world.

We gave blacks the priesthood because we could not bear the shame of the world.

We are in the middle of embracing homosexuality because we cannot bear the shame of the world.

We have apparently shed blood behind the scenes to make sure that these things would happen.

Why do I say that? Because the scriptures more or less lay it out that way.

Mormon 8:38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies – because of the praise of the world?
39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?
40 Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?

This is written to our church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for no other church is “the holy church of God”. It is directed to those who have power in our church, for the lay member has no power over these things. And it says “why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause the widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?”

Do we think that Moroni was wrong? I don’t believe he was. I think he knew what he was talking about.

I think I can take that to the bank. I can say “I believe Moroni, and he said to those who have power in the holy Church of God that they were building up secret abominations to get gain, and causing that widows should mourn and orphans should mourn and that the blood of their fathers and husbands cries unto the Lord for vengeance upon them”. I don’t think it is wrong to believe Moroni.

We should not have been ashamed to take upon ourselves the name of Christ, and we knew more about what that meant than other churches who had not the revelations and the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham and the words of Joseph Smith. We knew more, but we were ashamed of what we knew, and cast our knowledge from us, despising it, rather than to have to bear the shame of the world in order to take the name of Christ upon us.

And apparently, blood was shed to do it.