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                    THE TWO LETTERS of DR. GEORGE P. LEE
                    to the LDS First Presidency and the
                              Twelve Apostles

                        Written before September 1989

                          Reprinted September 1998
                            Salt Lake City, Utah




                                  PREFACE

Dr. George P. Lee was a member of the First Quorum of Seventy from 1975
to 1989. As a Navajo, he was considered an outstanding "success story," rising
from an uneducated and poor child to a well-known church leader. Dr. Lee felt
that the LDS Church leadership were turning their backs on the Native
Americans, and he considered that as a betrayal of President Kimball's trust
and as a failure to fulfill their mission and oath to the Lord in behalf of
Lee's people.
"He claimed church leaders have `turned their backs' on Native Americans,
and in pride and arrogance, are discriminating against the very people Mormon
scriptures say they must rely on for salvation. My conscience would not allow
me to go on." Dr. Lee was also critical of his peers for emphasizing material
things over spiritual ones. "All it has become is a job. It's not the Lord's
work. Their heart is not in it for the right reasons." (Salt Lake Tribune,
Sept. 2, 1989)
"It got to the point where I had to follow them or Jesus Christ, and I
chose to follow Jesus Christ," Lee said. "I told them they are the ones that
are apostatizing--teaching false doctrine." (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 2,
1989)
The following pages contain copies of the two letters that George P. Lee
addressed to the General Authorities of the LDS Church. On September 1, 1989,
only a few minutes after he had read the second letter to the First Presidency
and the Twelve, he was notified of his excommunication. Said Dr. Lee, then age
46 and father of seven, "It was just absolutely cold."


[1] To the First Presidency and the Twelve

Dear Brethren:
  After consulting with the Lord and with him guiding my thoughts and hand,
may I please speak with you in the spirit of love via this letter. I hope and
pray that you will take the time to listen with your heart and read the whole
letter.
  The feelings expressed are genuine and sincere and were not spawned out of
bitterness nor rebellion although I may be justified in doing so.
  I speak unto you not just for myself but for all of my people the Lamanites
as well as the Jews and the Lost Ten tribes. I speak unto you as the voice of
one crying from the dust for those that have died and moved on into the spirit
world.
  Like my father Nephi of old, I pray continually for my people and mine eyes
have watered my pillow by night because of them and I cry unto my Heavenly
Father in faith and I know that he will hear my cry.
  I glory in plainess and simplicity of the restored gospel. I glory in truth
and will defend it at any cost. I glory in my Heavenly Father. I glory in my
Jesus for he hath redeemed my soul. I have charity for my people. I have
charity for the Gentiles. I have charity for all the children of God.
  The question "Do you think President Kimball approves of your action?" has
been asked of me by one of you and I would like to respond to your inquiry
with the following questions.
a. Who terminated the BYU Indian Education Dept?
b. Who terminated BYU Indian Special Curriculum [2] which helped Indian
  students succeed in college?
c. Who is phasing out BYU American Indian Services?
d. Who is phasing out the Church's Indian Student Placement program?
e. Who got rid of the church's "Indian Committee?"
f. Who fired the Indian Seminary teachers and send them out into the cold?
g. Who pulled the full-time missionaries off Navajo and other Indian
  reservations?
h. Who moved the mission headquarters from Holbrook to Phoenix?
I. Who caused missionary work on Indian reservations to falter and make it
  almost non-existent?
j. Who is causing a feeling of rejection among Lamanite members on
  reservations which resulted in great inactivity among them?
k. Who terminated Indian Seminary and all related curriculum materials?
l. Who is teaching that the `Day of the Lamanite' is over and past?
m. Who is trying to do everything they can not to be known as a friend of the
  Indians like President Kimball was?
n. Who has assigned mentally unstable, physically handicapped and other
  mediocre of below average full-time missionaries to missions with large
  populations of Indians?
o. Who is trying to discredit or downplay the role of Lamanites in these last
  days and down play their role in the building of New Jerusalem?
[3]
p. Who is telling Church members to teach from the Book of Mormon and at the
  same time downplay the role of Lamanites in the Book of Mormon?
q. Who has come very close to denying that the Book of Mormon is about Indians
  or Lamanites?
r. Who is loving the Lamanites at a distance and would rather not rub
  shoulders with them?
s. Who is trying to take the place of Lamanites in their divine sacred roles
  and priesthood assignments in the Millennium?
t. Who is turning their backs on the children of Lehi and would rather not be
  "nursing fathers and mothers?"
u. Who is telling George P. Lee not to pray for or talk about Lamanites or the
  poor?
v. Who is conniving or scheming now to get of George P. Lee? Is he part of the
  package?
w. Who is loving George P. Lee at a distance and rather not rub shoulders with
  him?
1. Who is acting as judge, jury and executioner at the same time and delight
in putting George P. Lee on probation without fair hearing?
2. Who is causing George P. Lee and his family heartaches, mental and
psychological stress?
3. Who is causing heartaches as well as mental and psychological stress upon
the Lamanites out in the field?
4. Who is shutting down schools without warning among the Lamanites in the
islands?
5. Who is telling the Lamanites in the islands that they have been given too
much "Widow's mite" from the states and that they may have to go [4] without
for a while--including without help on maintenance and upkeep of their
buildings?
6. Who is causing the silent behind the scenes subtle scriptural and spiritual
slaughter of the Lamanites?
7. While physical extermination may have been one of Federal Government's
policies long ago but isn't spiritual and scriptural extermination of
Lamanites the greater sin?
8. Who is still harboring hostility and ill feelings towards the Lamanites
even after the Lord's commandment to gather them and to be "nursing fathers
and mothers" to them?
9. Who is turning their backs on the Lamanites--the very people on whom your
own salvation hangs?
10. Who wrote a letter to George P. Lee and falsely accused him of things
which were not true such as polygamy and teaching false doctrine?
11. Who put George P. Lee on probation after he faithfully and honestly opened
up to you in his attempts to answer your questions and false accusations with
a presentation on the chalkboard?
12. Who stripped George P. Lee of all assignments after he spoke out in a
meeting because he was hurt and was being punished without the Lord's justice
and mercy?
13. Wasn't George P. Lee who sincerely and humbly apologized and asked for
your forgiveness and love in a wonderful June meeting?
14. Wasn't he who fully and completely trusted you and told you he sustained
you 100% as apostles [5] and prophets? Didn't he promised you that he would
completely bury what he shared with you and that he would never teach them?
15. Didn't you tell him that you forgave him and that he was completely off
probation?
16. After the wonderful June meeting, who did not keep their word and denied
George P. Lee an Area Presidency assignment, prohibited him from dividing and
reorganizing stakes and denied him week-end assignments except that he went
with someone else after he was clearly told that he was completely off
probation?
17. Who really is speaking with Forked tongue? Who keeps breaking promises?
18. Who is telling George P. Lee `We love you' on one hand and on the other
hand you have a rope around his neck and withhold your complete trust and
confidence from him? So who really did violate the probation?
19. George P. Lee is on probation again. Who's fault is it really that he is
in the doghouse?
20. Do you really think that he has injured someone's feeling? Why is he
teaching Christlike love every chance he gets throughout the church? He has
been color-blind throughout his life and never sees colors in people.
21. What about his feelings? Don't you think you might have injured his
feelings and caused a pain in his heart by putting conditions on your love for
him and did not trust him on some assignments?
22. Who has prohibited and denied George P. Lee of certain important
assignments such as dividing [6] and reorganizing stakes since 1975? Do you
call that complete trust and confidence?
23. Don't you think that this has been a heavy burden for him to carry all
these years knowing in his mind and heart that his own Brethren didn't trust
him and that they have only conditional love for him?
24. What about the thousands you might have injured as you cut off Lamanite
programs and as you down played the role of the Lamanites?
25. What about countless other leaders, members and the poor who have been
hurt by your attitude, actions and words who have come to Elder Lee for
priesthood blessings and guidance? In every case Elder Lee has defended you
and did not report you nor put you on probation?
26. Do you think the Lord approves of double standards in the church? Do you
think He approves of double standards among the General Authorities?
27. Do you think that it is only right and fair that whatever the disciplinary
practices, rules and traditions are for the 70's, the same should apply to the
twelve?
28. Do you think members of the twelve should be above the law? Do you think
they should be above these disciplinary practices, rules and traditions?
29. Do you think there should be separate disciplinary rules for the twelve
and separate practices for the 70's?
30. Don't you think that each general authority should be given every
opportunity to be heard and to be [7] provided adequate information, reasons,
and facts as to why he is considered for probation and why he will be denied
certain assignments?
31. Do you think these practices, rules and traditions are a little bit out of
date and that there is a better way of dealing with each other?
32. Do you think these outdated man-made disciplinary practices and traditions
encourages priesthood abuse, induces fear, and produces forced obedience?
33. Do you think these outdated disciplinary traditions and rules creates a
sense of worship for those in power?
34. Do you think these archaic disciplinary rules and practices creates an
atmosphere whereby love of power, love of status and love of money flourishes?
35. Do you think these disciplinary practices and procedures creates an
environment whereby pride and arrogance are nourished, nurtured and
cultivated?
36. Do you think these outmoded procedures, practices and traditions creates
an atmosphere whereby faith, compassion, empathy and spiritually are
diminished?
37. Do you think it possible that these types of practices and traditions
encourages one to exercise control and unrighteous dominion upon the souls of
the children of God?
38. Do you think it possible that these types of man-made rules and traditions
encourages the blending of world prominence with spiritual prominence [8] and
thus produce the seeking of the praises of man and not the praises of God?
39. Do you think it is possible for these types of practices, rules and
traditions to create a condition whereby the spirit of the Lord is grieved and
the heavens will withdraw themselves and cause God to say amen to our
priesthood and authority?
40. If we claim to be righteous and holy men of God, don't you think that our
decisions must be made in all righteousness, in holiness, lowliness of heart,
meekness, longsuffering, in faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience,
Godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. (D&C 107:30)
41. Do you think we can learn a lot from the Nephites? Didn't they have all
the blessings of the gospel, priesthood and authority? But look what happened
to them?
42. Didn't their pride exceeded the pride of the world? Weren't they past
hearing, past feeling, past listening and past teachableness?
43. Didn't they control and exercise unrighteous dominion on each other and
meted out punishment without mercy and fair hearing?
44. Didn't they develop practices, procedures and man-made traditions which
created an environment where pride and arrogance were in full bloom?
45. Didn't the Lord finally said amen to their priesthood and authority and
closed the heavens on them?
46. Wasn't pride the killer of the Nephites? Wasn't arrogance a close second
and a close companion [9] of pride?
47. Do you think it is possible to have a similar pattern develop among us
today in the church?
48. Doesn't arrogance usually do all the talking and none of the listening?
49. Doesn't arrogance usually reject advice and refuses to be taught?
50. Doesn't arrogance usually stubbornly refuses to change its mind when it
knows its wrong?
51. Isn't arrogance an unwillingness to consider the possibility of making a
turn in your life, to change your direction and focus?

  My Beloved Brethren, I feel that I am in good standing with President
Kimball, especially with the Lord and Lehi. I am crying out to you. I need
your full trust, confidence, and unconditional love. I feel like the only
person who completely trusted me was President Kimball. I feel that some of
you do not have the best of feelings towards me. To me you are not a true
disciple or an apostle of the Lord if you refuse to let go of your hostility
or unkind feelings towards me or some other person. The spirit of the Lord
will not always strive with you if you harbor any such ill feelings.
  I do not appreciate being treated like a criminal and being punished as
one. I felt more like your enemy than a fellow general authority. There was a
time when defending the truth was applauded but today it seems that those who
are honest in their feelings, those who are strong in their convictions, those
who truly stand up for what's right are either [10] severely ridiculed or
excommunicated. What has gone wrong with us?
  I do not mind being chastised or disciplined if its done the Lord's way.
True obedience can only be taught and learned in an atmosphere of full trust,
confidence and love. Any discipline less than this is not of God and forced
obedience will be taught.
  I did not appreciate the labels or names that have been thrown my way such
as "apostate" "rebellious" "sick" "crazy" "listening to the wrong voice"
"speaking against leadership" "dark clouds over your head" and etc. I guess
these labels were a little easier to endure when I know that even the Son of
God, our Savior was ridiculed with similar names including Him being called
"possessed by the devil." When the going got tough even his closest friends
abandon him.
  I thought some of you were my friends but I guess not because when the
going got tough for me you ran from me and would have nothing to do with me,
to protect your own position and selfish interests.
  Brethren I need your warm handshakes and warm smiles. I need your
compliments. I need your support, respect and prayers. I need "nursing"
fathers and mothers, I need a good Samaritan for I have been woulded mentally
and psychologically and emotionally as well as spiritually. I do not need your
arrows, spear and stones in the form of disdain, snobbery, ridicule, rejection
and conditional selective love.
  Why do you continue to ridicule me for my spiritual gifts? I sincerely feel
that one of my special spiritual gifts is that of knowing the mysteries of
God. [11] Please read Alma 12:9-11. You have spiritual gifts too but you don't
see me ridiculing you for your special talents and gifts.
  Please don't harden your hearts against me because of this spiritual gift
and charge me with teaching false doctrine. Whatever you charge me with you
will also charge the Lamanites, Jews, and the Lost Ten Tribes. If you reject
me you also reject them as well as the God of Israel even Jesus Christ--great
shall be your condemnation.
  Again let me express my total and complete support, trust, respect and love
for each of you, I have never in the past publicly criticize or ridicule any
of you, I will come directly to you as I had tried to do with this letter
which is directed to you as a group.
  No matter what you may think or what you might have been told or heard, the
fact remains that I have always sustained you, defended you and stood up for
you while out in the field on assignments.
  As I have repeatedly told you, I sustain you as apostles and prophets. I
desire only to be one with you as the Father and Son are one, I desire only to
be of one mind and of one heart with you. We need to be one. If we are not we
are not worthy to be his disciples.
  We need to get our act together before the spirit of the Lord is grieved
and before the Lord says amen to our priesthood and authority as he did the
Nephites. I believe our fate is very similar to the Nephites unless we can
turn it around only upon the principles of righteousness (Read 3 Nephi
16:10-11).
  I have always cherished and held in high esteem [12] all of my assignments
and responsibilities and will hope and pray that the probation will be lifted
soon and that I shall receive all of my assignments back, this time with no
strings attached. I want to be treated fairly and as an equal and as an equal
with full fellowship among the Brethren and as an equal with full trust,
respect, confidence and unconditional love.
  Brethren, please, no more playing games. The probation serves no purpose at
all. It only teachs forced obedience and causes resentments and hostility.
Again obedience without full trust and charity is not of God.
  I am asking for your complete unconditional Christlike love and I will
execute all of my assignments without any more problems for the rest of my
life. My problem has been you. I have been hurt deeply by your lack of
confidence, trust, love and faith in me. I will accept any assignment and will
go anywhere, anytime faithfully if I only knew you had complete trust and
confidence in me. I'll even go back to Australia, to Phillipines, to China, to
Russia, just anywhere if I knew you had complete Christlike love for me.
  I am not even concerned or worried about the fact that our Lamanite report
card is not very good. I will let the Lord be the judge of that aspect of the
work. If we are guilty then we will receive his anger and wrath.
  I am not even concerned or extra worried about your apparent hostility and
hatred towards me. It is your problem and I will let the Lord be the judge of
that and he will hold you accountable. No apostle or any servant of God should
ever entertain "Big I and [13] little you" feeling towards anyone. Servants of
God who are unapproachable, insensitive and unforgiving are only putting shame
upon the holy priesthood of God.
  We do not have the priesthood for self-aggrandizement or to be used to
oppress anyone. There is no priesthood of God that authorizes any one man to
oppress another or to intrude upon his rights in any way. We ought to be a big
brother and friend to one another.
  Brethren this work is a never-ending work which we have taken upon
ourselves. It will never terminate until this earth shall be redeemed, until
the power of Satan shall be subdued, until wickedness shall be banished from
the earth, until Christ shall reign, whose right it is to reign, and until
every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, I so testify in his name. Amen! Elder Lee



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To the First Presidency and the Twelve

Dear Brethren:
  After consulting with the Lord and with him guiding my thoughts and hand,
may I please speak with you in the spirit of love via this letter. I hope and
pray that you will take the time to listen with your heart and with the
spirit.
  The feelings expressed are genuine and sincere and were not spawned out of
bitterness nor rebellion although I may be justified in doing so.
[14]
  I speak unto you not just for myself but for all the Lamanites as well as
the Jews and the Lost Ten tribes. Like my father Nephi of old, I pray
continually for my people and mine eyes have watered my pillow by night
because of them and I cry unto my Heavenly Father in faith and I know that he
will hear my cry.
  Like my people in the Book of Mormon I glory in plainess and simplicity of
the restored gospel. I glory in truth and will defend it at any cost. I glory
in my Heavenly Father. I glory in my Jesus for he hath redeemed my soul. I
have charity for my people. I have charity for the Gentiles. I have charity
for all the children of God.
  Brethren the Lord makes it very clear in the scriptures as to who the
Gentiles are and who Israel is. There are only two groups of people throughout
the world. Each person on earth belongs to one or the other. A Gentile is a
stranger or foreigner to the House of Israel. The true definition of a Gentile
is anyone who is not a literal or true seed of Israel. But a Gentile can be
numbered among House of Israel through baptism and thereby become "adopted
Israel" and receive his blessings through Ephraim but he does not become
literal or true seed of Ephraim.
  Therefore any Gentile who is numbered or adopted into Israel can still be
referred to as a Gentile so that a distinction can be made as to what group
has been charged with the gospel after true Israel rejects the gospel and
crucifies Christ.
  If this were not so, then how could True Israel reject Christ and the
gospel and at the same time receive it again? Israel cannot reject and receive
at the [15] same time? This is against God's plan and design.
  His wonderful plan as outlined in the scriptures is to have the Gentiles or
"adopted Israel" to receive the restored gospel after Israel's rejection. If
everybody is Israel then who are the Gentiles who suppose to receive the
restored gospel and take it to Israel?
  One's salvation or exaltation does not depend on whether one is an "adopted
Israel" or literal seed of Israel. Eternal life with God will depend on one's
own faithfulness and righteousness.
  The designation "adopted Israel" of Gentile and literal seed of Israel only
becomes important when distinguishing which group has the Abrahamic covenant
or to put it simply "who has the priesthood assignment to bless the whole
world with the gospel?". Only one of the two groups has the priesthood
assignment to bless all the human families throughout the world.
  Do the Gentiles or "adopted Israel" have the mission to bless the whole
world with the gospel. I think not, at least not totally. They will assist
true Israel in accomplishing this mission but I do not believe they will have
"front seat" leadership role in it.
  As the Lord Jesus clearly states throughout 3rd Nephi the Gentiles or
"adopted Israel" will also "assist" true Israel in the building of New
Jerusalem and the building of the temple in the New Jerusalem in preparation
for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Israel's assignment to bless
all the human families throughout the world includes the building of the New
Jerusalem and temples in New and Old Jerusalem.
[16]
  In a sense, the New Jerusalem will become missionary training center out of
which 144,000 Israelite missionaries will emerge, 12,000 from each tribe with
the Gentiles or "adopted Israel" in the assisting role.
  Both Israel and Gentiles or "adopted Israel" have divine roles to play in
this the last dispensation of the fullness of times. Each must understand it's
role or else there will be great confusion, chaos and misunderstandings. It's
an honor to be a Gentile or adopted Israel. It is nothing to be ashamed of.
God does not love or favor Israel more nor does he love Gentiles more than
Israel. The important and vital question or issue at hand is: who has the
ultimate priesthood assignment to bless the whole world with the gospel?
  This priesthood assignment was given in the pre-mortal life and one group
was charged with this sacred and divine responsibility. On earth this
particular group became known as the House of Israel. This group gave
leadership to advancing the gospel on earth from the time of Adam up to and
including crucifixion of Christ, the killing off of the original Israelite
twelve apostles and the Nephites. Then Israel crucified Christ and rejected
His gospel. Apostacy and the dark ages came and went.
  Since the Gentiles did not crucify Christ and since they did not reject His
gospel, God in His mercy and compassion, gave great blessings to the Gentiles.
Their blessings included:
  a.    receiving the restored gospel.
  b.    receiving the keys, rights, privileges, power, [17] and authority of
          priesthood.
  c.    keys in gathering true Israel including Lamanites.
  d.    building temples and doing ordinance work.
  e.    keys in doing missionary work but not to fulfill true Israel's
          assignment in blessing all human families throughout the world.
  f.    leadership role in building the kingdom including the privilege of
          being apostles and prophets, stake presidents, bishops, patriarchs
          and etc.
  g.    given their own time period called "Times of the Gentiles" in which
          to become temporary custodians of the gospel, bless each other with
          the gospel and to lay the foundation to gather true Israel and to
          lay ground work for the building of New Jerusalem and second coming
          of Christ and making preparations to make a smooth transition in
          giving leadership of church and gospel back to True Israel so that
          they can fulfill their priesthood assignment of blessing the whole
          world with the gospel. Adopted Israel does not have this assignment.
  ALL OF THESE BLESSINGS EXTENDED TO THE GENTILES OR "ADOPTED ISRAEL" WERE
ONLY ON THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

  My Beloved Brethren, I am afraid that you as Gentiles or "adopted Israel"
have forgotten your blessings and the divine sacred role you were to play.
[18] I am afraid that the same thing that has happened to the Nephites is
happening to you. I feel sad for you and have nothing but compassion for you.
  Didn't the Nephites had all the blessings of the gospel, priesthood and
authority? But look what happened to them?
  Wasn't pride the killer of the Nephites?
  Didn't their pride exceeded the pride of the world? Wasn't arrogance a
close second and a close companion of pride?
  Do you think it is possible to have a similar pattern developing among you?
  Weren't the Nephites past hearing, past feeling, past listening and past
teachableness.
  Doesn't pride and arrogance do all the talking and none of the listening?
  Do they usually reject advice and refuse to be taught?
  Doesn't pride stubbornly refuses to change its mind when it knows its
wrong?
  Didn't the Nephites control and exercise unrighteous dominion on each other
and gave out punishment without mercy, fairplay and fair hearing?
  Didn't they develop man-made and man-inspired practices, procedures and
traditions which created an environment where love of control, love of power,
love of status, love of money flourishes so that faith, compassion, empathy
and spirituality are diminished?
  Do you think it possible that these types of man-inspired rules and
practices encourages the blending of world prominance with spiritual
prominance and thus produce the seeking of the praises of man instead [19] of
praises of God?
  Didn't the Lord finally said amen to their priesthood and authority and
closed the heavens on them?
  In third Nephi chapter sixteen verses ten and eleven the Lord outlines your
destiny if you do not repent. May I read please:
  "And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day
when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of
my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all
nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with
all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of
hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret
abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the
fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my
gospel from among them.
  And then will I remember my covenant which I have made unto my people, O
house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel unto them." (3 Nephi 16:10-11)

  Brethren, I feel a deep compassion for you and a grave concern for you.
  I feel that you are sinning against God. I feel that your sinning against
and rejection of the fullness of the gospel have already taken place and is in
process for the following reasons:

1.    You have set yourself up as a literal seed of Israel when the Lord
    Jesus designated you as [20] Gentiles or "adopted Israel" you have set
    yourself up as true seed of Ephraim thereby displacing the true seed of
    Israel.
      You have shoved true Israel out of his own home or house and have
    given great importance and status to your own role as Ephraim while at
    the same time diminishing the role of true Israel. This has resulted in
    great confusion, misinterpretations and misunderstandings of the
    scriptures as they relate to gentiles and Israel.
      Because of this Gentiles or "adopted Israel" have set themselves up
    as true Ephraimites with little or no obligation or sense of
    responsibility to the Lamanites and other true seed of Israel. This kind
    of teaching runs counter to the instructions of the Lord Jesus and
    collides with the will of God. I cannot be a party to this type of policy
    or doctrine. It is not God's but man-inspired. It is getting to the point
    where every Gentile that is baptized is told and taught that he is
    literal seed of Ephraim unless he is a Jew, Indian or Black. This type of
    teaching encourages an attitude, pride, arrogance, an love of power, and
    no sense obligation to the poor, needy and afflicted.

2.    You have taught that the "remnant of House of Israel" means all
    members of the church. This collides with and runs counter to the
    instruction of the Lord Jesus. In First Nephi chapter thirteen verse 34
    He defines who the remnant of Israel is. Let me read
      "And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord [21] spake unto me
    saying Behold saith the Lamb of God, after I have visited the remnant of
    the House of Israel--and this remnant of whom I speak is the seed of thy
    Father (Lehi)" (I Nephi 13:34)
      According to the Lord Jesus' definition the "remnant of the House of
    Israel" means Lamanites or children of Lehi not all members of the
    church. I cannot be a party to anything less than this. I cannot be party
    to false teaching, teachings which are man-inspired.

3.    You have taught that the Book of Mormon is not written to the
    Lamanites but to the Gentiles in our day. You have come very close to
    denying that the Book of Mormon is about Lamanites. You have cut out
    Indian or Lamanite programs and are attempting to cut them out of the
    Book of Mormon. You are trying to discredit or downplay the role of
    Lamanites in these last days and downplay their role and importance in
    the building of the New Jerusalem.
      You are teaching members to teach from the Book of Mormon and at the
    same time downplay their role in the Book of Mormon you are teaching that
    today's Lamanites are descendents of wicked & evil Lamanites in the Book
    of Mormon. The truth is the Lamanites today are descendents of both
    Nephites and Lamanites--therefore they carry the Blood of Mormon, Moroni,
    Nephi, Lehi and other great Book of Mormon prophets in their veins today.
          You are loving the Indians and other [22] Lamanites at a distance
    and have no sense of responsibility to them because you displaced they
    and set yourself up a Ephraim more superior to the Lamanites, and thus
    you are telling the Lamanites that you are No.1 and they are second
    class. You are trying to take their place in their divine roles and
    assignments.
          You are turning your backs on them and would rather not be "nursing
    fathers and mothers."
          You are slowly causing a silent subtle scriptural and spiritual
    slaughter of the Indians and other Lamanites.
          While physical extermination may have been one of Federal
    government's policies long ago but your current scriptural and spiritual
    extermination of Indians and other Lamanites is the greater sin and great
    shall be your condemnation for this.
          You are still harboring hostility and ill feelings towards Indians
    and other Lamanites even after the Lord's commandments to gather them and
    be nursing fathers and mothers to them. In short, you betraying and
    turning your backs on the very people on whom your own salvation hangs. I
    cannot be a party to this kind of teaching which runs counter to the
    Lord's instructions in the scriptures.

4.    Pride, arrogance and unrighteous dominion an control which
    encourages priesthood abuse, induces fear and produces forced obedience.

5.    Love of power, status, position which creates [23] a sense of
    worship for those in control and power.

6.    Love of money. The rich seem to get richer and the poor get poorer
    which encourages no sense of responsibility to the poor. In fact you told
    me to not talk about poor nor pray for them. The well-to do seemed to get
    all the important assignments and callings. Every week-end all we do is
    rub shoulders with the active or well-to do while neglecting the poor who
    need our help the most. I suppose most active members do not have
    inactive or poor friends. Our faith, devotion and commitment seemed to be
    based on being paid to do the work. A lot of our Priesthood leaders
    depend on being paid to attend important priesthood meetings which
    includes Bishops, branch presidents, district presidents, stake
    presidents, regional representatives and even general authorities. Of
    course most of these Brethren would go anywhere in the name of "The
    Lord's Work" as long as they are being paid and as long as all of their
    expenses are being paid. Brethren, your board memberships and meetings,
    royalty from written books, and all donations and gifts from friends,
    speaking engagements and etc.
          I am not sure how many of us would really do the Lord's work if we
    were not being paid.

7.    I have heard a few of you declare that you are greater than ancient
    apostles such as Moses, Abraham, Noah, Isaiah, Isaac, Jacob and etc. This
    reflects the attitude of all of you.

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8.    I have heard one of more of you declare that you can change anything
    Jesus had said or taught. This also reflects the attitude of all of you.

9.      Covering up our sins:
        a.    vain ambitions
        b.    gratifying our pride
        c.    exercise unrighteous control
        d.    exercise unrighteous dominion
        e.    exercise unrighteous compulsion
        f.    hearts set upon things of the world.
        g.    hearts aspire to honors of men.
        h.    They do not learn one lesson. That rights of priesthood are
              inseparably connected with powers of heaven and that powers of
              heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the
              Principles of Righteousness.
                It is our nature and disposition that as soon as we get a
              little authority as we suppose we begin to exercise unrighteous
              dominion.

10.  It is not so much what you know or how spiritual you are it's who
    you know.

Brother Lee was excommunicated Sept. 1, 1989



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I really do not wish to judge George P. Lee, I believe he has a lot of good points on his address to the First Presidency, YET I believe there are a lot of lies on it as well, isn't that how Satan works? Using half true statements mixed with lies?





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