If a female tried to get into the priesthood session of GC...

[Jeff Lebowski]

That a sisters meeting has all men speakers. (I'm just repeating the criticism - Dwight and I apparently have the same Internet friends).

No, it has some female speakers. They just weren't featured on the invite.

[TripletDaddy]

Uh huh....
Can I get a ruling on this?

I have a long established precedent of giving apostles wacky nicknames. Judgment in favor of me.

[TripletDaddy]

He's a surfer, so I'd guess he's pretty boring.

He surfs? Why is he in church leadership?

[Northwestcoug]

I have a long established precedent of giving apostles wacky nicknames. Judgment in favor of me.

Yeah, but your wacky nickname doesn't hide the fact that Mr. B. is a pretty dry speaker.

[smokymountainrain]

He surfs? Why is he in church leadership?

Yep. He grew up in Hawaii.

[HBCoug]

He surfs? Why is he in church leadership?

Because he's a soul surfer!

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[Moliere]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:

I loved seminary, and developed a strong testimony through the seminary program. Thank goodness for that! My senior year of high school, in return for full use of one of my parents’ vehicles, my brother was assigned to transport my sister and me to all our activities. My brother was an undercover narcotics officer. For several weeks as he waited for me to come out of Mutual, he watched the kids passing drugs in front of the church. He came to me and asked what I wanted him to do. I told him that he should do whatever he felt was right. Out of respect for me, he went to the Bishop first and informed the Bishop of the situation. The Bishop told him that these kids had good tithe-paying parents, and he should keep his nose out of it. So my brother busted the kids, and I believe they went to juvenile hall.

That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I finished my last semester of seminary because I loved it, and the druggies either didn’t come, or slept through it anyway. I quit going to Mutual, and I quit going to church on Sunday. After graduating from seminary, I disappeared into 20 years of inactivity.

So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

[Pheidippides]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:



So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

I don't...wha?...that doesn't even....gah!

As for Mormon Women Stand, it's not just molly mormons, it's indirectly set up and financed by the church as an intentional response to OW. I will see if I can find the source on that.

[TripletDaddy]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:



So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

It is tough to wade through all of the negativism and hyperbole in that story, but this little nugget stood out in a humorous way:

One particularly cold snowy evening, Dad dropped me off at the church for Mutual and left for an appointment. He came back to find me frozen solid, in tears, leaning against a stop sign so the wind didn’t blow me down the street

frozen solid. Lol. That final image of Jack Nicholson in The Shining comes to mind.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

It is tough to wade through all of the negativism and hyperbole in that story, but this little nugget stood out in a humorous way:


frozen solid. Lol. That final image of Jack Nicholson in The Shining comes to mind.

Sounds like a faith promoting story that a worthy Phood holder was able to keep her alive after being frozen solid to a sign. Many people would not have survived this mortal state in those conditions.

[wuapinmon]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:



So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

That story makes no sense whatsoever. It reads like some of the more sophomoric made-up shit on reddit.

[Uncle Ted]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:

I loved seminary, and developed a strong testimony through the seminary program. Thank goodness for that! My senior year of high school, in return for full use of one of my parents’ vehicles, my brother was assigned to transport my sister and me to all our activities. My brother was an undercover narcotics officer. For several weeks as he waited for me to come out of Mutual, he watched the kids passing drugs in front of the church. He came to me and asked what I wanted him to do. I told him that he should do whatever he felt was right. Out of respect for me, he went to the Bishop first and informed the Bishop of the situation. The Bishop told him that these kids had good tithe-paying parents, and he should keep his nose out of it. So my brother busted the kids, and I believe they went to juvenile hall.


That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I finished my last semester of seminary because I loved it, and the druggies either didn’t come, or slept through it anyway. I quit going to Mutual, and I quit going to church on Sunday. After graduating from seminary, I disappeared into 20 years of inactivity.

So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

It is pretty obvious... The bishop was the supplier on the drug business and had the ward youth pushing the product. The parents were in on it as well and used tithing payments to launder the money back to the bishop. When the narc brother busted the kids and they were sent to juvie as first-time offenders because of the huge amount of product they had on them (obviously they just got out of an "interview" with the bishop). The bishop then called a disciplinary council and had the narc snuffed out excommunicated. She was upset over this and left the church. The stupid narc brother should have followed money and busted the kingpin of this operation. Obviously he was a rookie and that is why he could afford to buy his own car and was still living at home.

[Moliere]

It is pretty obvious... The bishop was the supplier on the drug business and had the ward youth pushing the product. The parents were in on it as well and used tithing payments to launder the money back to the bishop. When the narc brother busted the kids and they were sent to juvie as first-time offenders because of the huge amount of product they had on them (obviously they just got out of an "interview" with the bishop). The bishop then called a disciplinary council and had the narc snuffed out excommunicated. She was upset over this and left the church. The stupid narc brother should have followed money and busted the kingpin of this operation. Obviously he was a rookie and that is why he could afford to buy his own car and was still living at home.

This would be a perfect script for a low-budget Richard Dutcher movie.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

This might be one of the weirdest posts I've ever read. I'm not sure I get the reason for it, but it was entertaining. My favorite part is here:



So she left the church because her brother defied the bishop's request?

After reading this post I'm more convinced than ever that the women behind this blog are very much Molly Mormons.

This is a great heart warming story of redemption. I think the "last straw" comment was in reference to more hypocrisy.



My brother the undercover narcotics agent and you won't catch me unprepared for standing next to stop signs again.

[Moliere]

I don't...wha?...that doesn't even....gah!

As for Mormon Women Stand, it's not just molly mormons, it's indirectly set up and financed by the church as an intentional response to OW. I will see if I can find the source on that.

I knew it was setup in response to OW and just figured it was done at the request of someone high up in the church. That is totally believable but if you have a source on that I'd love to see it. I doubt it takes a lot of financing though since I'm sure most of the women that run it feel like it's part of their calling.

The MWS FB group is interesting to follow. It's so Mormony it's not even funny. Almost ever post is a passive-aggressive swipe at OW. It's like a support group for women that want to be told by other fellow women that not being allowed to be a PH holder is okay....and in some cases it's better than being a PH holder.