On Sunday night, LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson quoted uniquely Mormon text in his speech at the NAACP’s 110th annual convention in Detroit, saying “all are alike unto God.”
Following speaker after speaker, rallying attendees to battle the nation’s ills (“When we fight, we win”), the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints repeated that scriptural phrase to make sure the NAACP attendees filling the arena — where Martin Luther King gave the first rendition of his moving “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 — heard its message.
“We truly believe that we are brothers and sisters — all part of the same divine family,” Nelson continued.