In Sterling Heights Ward Sunday School class today there was no mention at all of the 1978 Revelation on the priesthood. To me this was a major problem, considering this is what the first half of the lesson was about. I was also one of only three people present in the class who was born after the 1978 revelation. Most people in the class are old enough that they were adults at the time of the revelation.
In some ways I am glad that the topic was not brought up, I am not sure I was ready to hear false theories put forth. I did on the sides share the Race and the Pruiesthood Essay with a class member who was barely born at the time of the 1978 revelation. He had not read it, and had not realized that ordinations of men of African descent from 1830-1852 were fullly approved. Nor had he realized that Brigham Young had praised Q. Walker Lewis. More needs to be done to encourage people to read the gospel topics essays.
