Ordain Women

I heard about this site from Joana Brooks. It is oh so scandaloso but interesting. My favorite excerpt from the FAQ page was,

" In questioning Church policies, aren't you questioning God?

No. In fact, the challenge to advocate for women's ordination was articulated by former Church President Gordon B. Hinckley in a 1997 interview with reporter David Ransom.
When Ransom asked if the policy on denying priesthood to women could be changed, much like it had for black men, President Hinckley responded,
"Yes. But there's no agitation for that."
Ordain Women joins a new generation of faithful Mormon women who are rising up and responding to this challenge."

Check out their site at http://ordainwomen.org

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  1. DJ ScheererApril 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM

    I am not saying I agree with this little article, but it raises some legitimate points and I want to know your thoughts.

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2013/03/a-couple-knots-with-mormon-women-and-the-priesthood/

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  2. DJ ScheererApril 4, 2013 at 10:08 PM

    There is a link to this article in that blog post, but this is also an interesting take on the situation. And also potent for me since I studied the sacred feminine last semester.

    http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2013/03/giving-up-on-the-feminine-divine/

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  3. AbigayleApril 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM

    Deej,
    Thanks so much for these links! They were fascinating, especially the times and seasons one. I agreed with almost everything he said. My belief is that the feeling of inequality within the church stems from misunderstanding of the great value and power of the gifts of women. I think a lot of that may come from the fact that we don't know much right now about our heavenly mother. I really LOVED when he said, "I wonder if one reason for the relative remoteness of our Heavenly Mother is that Her proximity might counteract the Veil. Home is where mother is, after all, and if leaving home is essential to this phase of our existence, a temporarily diminished relationship to our Heavenly Mother may be an unavoidable aspect of it."
    I totally connected with that and it helps me understand it a lot better actually. Like mortality is the battlefield and right now we need to focus on our father. But I also feel really strongly that it is SO important that we as latter-day saint don't want until the next life to try to understand as best we can the dual male/female nature of God and the sacredness and power of the feminine divine. In fact, I don't believe it is really possible to become a saint without that.
    So in my opinion, we don't need to ordain women, we need to enlarge and strengthen the understanding of the power of the roles that they currently hold and their indispensable role in salvation. And we need to make these roles more visible and give women every possible opportunity to work and serve in the kingdom that they can have.

    I truly believe that our feelings about and relationship towards the opposite gender is one of the great litmus tests of our eternal progression.

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