WB inquires about ban study committee.
Wallace Bennett, Letter to Adam S. Bennion, May 17, 1954, Box 10, Folder 3, Lester Bush Papers
You indicated that the Church leadership is even now undertaking a careful reevaluation of our doctrine in this respect [to the priesthood ban]. Would it not be of immense value to inform the lay membership generally of the study and of the conclusions reached? if the conclusion be that on the basis of our present scriptural knowledge God has commanded that this particular disability but that it is the considered judgment of the leadership that the Negro not be otherwise discriminated against--or whatever the conclusion--the very technique of such inquiry would, if known and followed, demonstrate the dynamic capacity of the Chur[c]h.