This whole article is just such balderdash. Nothing has changed. Women have been giving major addresses in church since I was a little girl, and I’m 60. We have always been urged to get an education.
Julie Beck’s talk was the subject of our lesson in Relief Society last Sunday, with total approval. I have a job which has been rewarding and challenging in every way that a job can be rewarding and challenging. But the older I get, the more I realize that nothing I have done at the office or in a courtroom will ever be more important than the work I did raising my children. Being a competent homemaker — in the sense of actually making a home that is a place of learning and refuge and development — is the most important thing a woman can do.
There have always been a few “feminists” who bitch a little bit. But they either outgrow it or leave the Church.
And, no, I wasn't alive then. I'm just a student of western history and know women on the frontier were much better treated than those in so-called civilized society because everyone had to earn respect, not just demand it.
My theory as to why Mormons are such a reliable conservative voting demographic is because they are closer to the frontier mentality than most others.
5.5 million sisters in the RS and only 250 griped about the talk yet they are supposed to be some kind of ‘movement’ within the church? Puh-leez.
I wonder if any of those 250 sisters went to the Leadership Training Broadcast for parents a couple weeks ago. Bet they didn’t like that much either. I like how they said that Gospel culture must take precedent over local culture.