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“I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people,” sings Elder Kevin Price in the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon.” The line is meant to be funny, and it is in part because it’s true. In a June 1978 letter, the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…