(Salt Lake City, UT) — A leader for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues an apology after comments he made about race went viral on social media. The comments captured on a Zoom recording during a youth fireside showed Young Men General Presidency second counselor Brad Wilcox. During his talk, Wilcox addressed questions he received about the Church’s past ban on Black men holding the priesthood that stood until 1978. Wilcox said the questions needed to be reframed to why whites and other races had to wait until the time near the founding of the LDS Church, nearly 140 years earlier. Wilcox expressed regret for the remarks, saying they “did not come through” as he intended.