Wear Pants to Church Day

[Moliere]

I propose that we coopt Scout Sunday for “Wear a Black Beret to Church Day”

I'm in

[Jeff Lebowski]

Following closely on the heels of Wear Pants to Church day: Wear a Black Beret to Church day.

http://www.motleyvision.org/2013/black-beret-sunday/

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I saw this video of Sheri Dew posted on Facebook. The video was posted to YouTube in November (not sure when the talk was given) so obviously not a response to the Wear Pants to Church thing, but I thought the theme fit well here.

My impression of her points was somewhere in the area of, "LDS women should feel empowered simply by the fact that they've had it much better than their black compatriots.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUI79EdDH9E&sns=em"]What Do LDS Women Get? - YouTube[/nomedia]

(Sorry. Can't figure how to imbed on my phone.)

[pellegrino]

Neylan McBaine strikes again.

http://www.feministmormonhousewives....ons-manifesto/

Edenic or self-actualizing feminism requires the existence of a robust female sphere in which women can develop the kind of self-knowledge, confidence and drive to action that Eve demonstrated. I believe that the seeds of this robust female sphere do exist in Relief Society, our emphasis on motherhood, and our discussions of self-worth and nobility as daughters of God, but this sphere’s ability to represent the full potential of women is as yet untapped and needs to be moved from language to action. What good does it do to talk about self-worth as daughters of God if we do not act in a way that puts that worth to use? I have expressed elsewhere what those administrative and cultural practices could look like if we let Edenic feminism guide us. Other substantial imaginings have proposed a separation of administration priesthood from ecclesiastical priesthood. I look forward to a day when gender parity in our practices: when, as I said recently, rich layers of women leading women are fully excavated from the seeds of our current reality, and when the Relief Society fully explores its global potential as a place for women to cultivate themselves. If I play out my vision, extending what I know to be a reality in the Church today to the ideal I’d love to see, the general Relief Society president is administratively and ministerially responsible for half of the world’s population in a joint venture of administering the church with the prophet. This vision is not so far-fetched: Mormon historians might argue that my vision is more a hearkening back to the way Relief Society was structured in the early church, rather than a leaning forward to some unattainable ideal. General Relief Society President Emmeline Wells lamented being moved to the newly constructed Bishop’s Building, out of her office next to President Joseph F. Smith’s. She understood the symbolic twilight of her organization’s stewardship as it had existed to that time.

[Indy Coug]

[SandYFan]

Shots fired!

http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/1334...yDRB7s.twitter

Along with that final comment by Elder Ballard, I would surmise that if any persons in the Church have an issue with women not receiving the priesthood by ordination, then they are not attending the temple.

And if they are attending the temple, they do not really understand what they are hearing and experiencing there.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Shots fired!

http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/1334...yDRB7s.twitter

Holy sanctimony, Batman.

[Indy Coug]

When men and women go to the temple, they are both endowed with the same power, which is by definition priesthood power. “All who enter the house of the Lord officiate in the ordinances of the priesthood. This applies to men and women alike."

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[old_gregg]

Shots fired!

http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/1334...yDRB7s.twitter

a steamy pile of out of touch, patronizing bullshit coming out of a ces product? shocking

[jay santos]

In 60 years, SU's great grand children will be arguing that the reason it took until the year 2068 to ordain women to the priesthood was that the sexist culture in the church and America from 1830 to 2068 prevented the Lord from allowing it.

[Pheidippides]

Holy sanctimony, Batman.

This got posted to Facebook by a friend yesterday. I nearly responded by joining up with the ordain women group to rebut and troll her. (I try to keep my posts controversy free). I may yet do it. My wife probably will because she is an awesome troll when it comes to her friends.

(I do support OW, as does my wife, but not enough to open my Facebook feed for a nasty debate. Yet).

[TripletDaddy]

I thought this line from the article was a little odd

.I believe Jesus was the greatest champion of women who has ever lived. (For example: Jesus broke social norms when His first recorded open declaration that He was the Messiah was to a woman, and a Samaritan woman even.)

He seems to suggest that if Jesus had declared himself the Messiah to a man that social norms would not have been broken...that the radical nature of His declaration was not the declaration itself but the gender that first heard it.

[ERCougar]

Shots fired!

http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/1334...yDRB7s.twitter

Very clever. As he prepares the membership for the future shedding of tears, he lays the groundwork for the future apologist's argument that "this was never really doctrine".

[clackamascoug]

I did like his point about looking Heavenly Mother in the eye, and not thinking of her as a subject, but as a full partner with a clear understanding of the plan. That made sense to me.

[Mrs. Funk]

This got posted to Facebook by a friend yesterday. I nearly responded by joining up with the ordain women group to rebut and troll her. (I try to keep my posts controversy free). I may yet do it. My wife probably will because she is an awesome troll when it comes to her friends.

(I do support OW, as does my wife, but not enough to open my Facebook feed for a nasty debate. Yet).

I've posted a few things without causing major kerfuffles, and I'm sure my comments on the FB page itself randomly show up on people's feeds. I think my extended family has written me off as a godless heathen anyway.