In the late 1970’s, about the time the mormons decided to comply with the 1964 Civil rights Laws and allow black men to have a mionr role in their organization, some women asked to have a role also...
The mormons kicked the women out...and smear their good names..
These were not “feminists” who worshiped a “mother god” but “homemakers” who felt, and rightly, that women should have some say among the mormons just as women in Christian churches did...
It still hasnt changed ...women are still second class citizens in the mormon organization...
All I can say to you is: Fully segregated baptist churches.
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would you point me to some of this information?
thanks
Every sentence of your post is false. Where on earth do you get your stuff?
The 1964 Civil Rights law doesn’t have any application to churches. It had nothing to do with giving the priesthood to black men. All men can now be ordained to any priesthood office, not “minor roles.” There are black bishops and general authorities.
There was a handful of women who started agitating for the priesthood, which is reserved to males, and which is fine with all but a miniscule number.
The majority of Mormon women were appalled at their behavior. After all, it makes no sense. If you believe that the Mormon church is led by a prophet, which we do, you know that agitating and demonstrating makes no sense. If you believe that the prophet is wrong about who should get the priesthood, then you don’t believe he is a prophet, and you should probably find another church.
Furthermore, these women didn’t stop at simply asking for the priesthood. Some of them launched a frontal assault on church doctrine. One I remember was Sonja Johnson, who painted herself as a martyr, then later announced that she was a practicing lesbian. Some were excommunicated, and rightly so.
We women are not and never have been second class citizens. My church has given me leadership opportunities from the time I was a young girl. Through scholarships, it paid my way as an undergraduate and a law student. I am as important to my husband’s salvation as he is to mine. I have never been treated with anything but respect by male church leaders. A faithful Mormon man is an incredibly good husband. In fact, when I consider the fact all the men who have been close to me in my life, by marriage or blood, have been good men in every sense of the word — moral, honest, faithful, hardworking, devoted to family — I realize that I have been incredibly lucky, compared to most of the women in the world.
Just because we believe that men and women are different, does not mean we believe that they are unequal or that women are “second class.”
Are you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? If not, how are we still ‘second class citizens’ in the church? We’re not. We have different roles in life than men do. Not worse, not better, just different.