This week in Mormon Land: Mystery solved — we now know who ordained early black convert Elijah Able.

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For years, David Matheson, a Utahn who was raised in the church and married to a woman, was a prominent advocate and professional practitioner of so-called “reparative therapy,” an effort that essentially seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.